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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:10:07PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Apr 25 2009, Anders Logg wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:40:35AM +0200, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
>>> I've verified the curl vs wikipedia and defined rot as the z-component
>>> of the curl of the 2D vector operand embedded in 3D. Is that right?
>>>
>
> rot is just a synonym for curl. For simplicity, I would remove rot.

I'm used to the following notation (in pseudo-math):

  rot:  R^2 --> R
  curl: R   --> R^2
  curl: R^3 --> R^3

-- 
Anders

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