issmall: Is a form zero to within numerical precision?

In wedge: The Exterior Calculus

Description

Given a k-form, return TRUE if it is “small”

Usage

issmall(M, tol=1e-8)

Arguments

M	Object of class kform or ktensor
tol	Small tolerance, defaulting to 1e-8

Value

Returns a logical

Author(s)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Examples

o <- kform_general(4,2,runif(6))
M <- matrix(rnorm(36),6,6)

discrepancy <- o - transform(transform(o,M),solve(M))

issmall(discrepancy)  # should be TRUE
is.zero(discrepancy)  # might be FALSE

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