2 ms·> axpy? mm? dia? nrm2? Those are the standard BLAS names for those things.by sampo 9y ago> axpy? mm? dia? nrm2? Those are the standard BLAS names for those things.tjl 9y agoBLAS and LAPACK have an excuse, they come old school Fortran (FORTRAN 77) that originally had a max on function name size.tptacek 9y agoBut people have a reason to know those abbreviations, just like Unix programmers have a reason to know names like "stat" and "fctnl" and "ioctl".