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> 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

Agree.

Kent