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Fri 05 January 2018

@ Python's Matrix Multiplication Operator

Posted by Aly Sivji in Quick Hits   

2017 will forever be etched in our memories as the year Python overtook R to become the leading language for Data Science. There are many factors that play into this: Python's simple syntax, the fantastic PyData ecosystem, and of course buy-in from Python's BDFL.

PEP 465 introduced the @ infix operator that is designated to be used for matrix multiplication. The acceptance and implementation of this proposal in Python 3.5 was a signal to the scientific community that Python is taking its role as a numerical computation language very seriously.

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