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[Rivet] Poll: deltaEta -- signed or unsigned?Leif Lönnblad leif.lonnblad at thep.lu.seTue Apr 12 20:57:10 BST 2011
On 2011-04-12 18:46, Andy Buckley wrote: > On 12/04/11 17:31, Hendrik Hoeth wrote: > I'm sitting beside Hendrik at the moment, but may as well publicly > register my opinion that an unsigned delta is safer and more consistent > with our deltaPhi functions. If someone wants a signed delta(eta), I > don't think it's too much to ask that they say vec_ref.eta() - > vec_i.eta(). My $0.02 :-) It's difficult to find a use-case for a signed deltaPhi. For a signed deltaEta it is not that difficult (in fact I saw it used in two different talks in the last weeks). I guess I would anyway vote for the unsigned version. /Leif
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