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| Jan 30, 2019 at 18:14 | comment | added | Roger Van Peski | @DavidESpeyer is the interpretation in terms of LU decomposition which you mention present in Danilov and Koshevoy? I didn’t see it there but perhaps I just didn’t understand what was going on well enough. | |
| May 25, 2012 at 23:48 | comment | added | David E Speyer | Yes. The literature by Kirillov and his Japanese collaborators use the word "tropical" backwards from everyone else. Allen Knuston pointed out to me that their usage is more logical -- if you think about thermodynamics, then the discrete piecewise linear side should be the temperature zero limit. But it doesn't seem likely that this usage will be adopted by many others. | |
| May 25, 2012 at 19:21 | comment | added | Gjergji Zaimi | Thanks! The word tropical seems to be used in a funny way here (doesn't it usually go the other way around?). | |
| May 25, 2012 at 11:54 | history | answered | David E Speyer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |