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Re: Is there a function to calculate the determinant of a N×N matrix? [message #65979] Thu, 09 April 2009 09:14
Michael Galloy is currently offline  Michael Galloy
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duxiyu@gmail.com wrote:
> I want to calculate the value of the determinant which is an array D
> [N, N].
> Is there a built-in functions to do it?

Check out DETERM and LA_DETERM.

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Re: Is there a function to calculate the determinant of a N×N matrix? [message #65985 is a reply to message #65979] Thu, 09 April 2009 06:41 Go to previous message
Jean H. is currently offline  Jean H.
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duxiyu@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I want to calculate the value of the determinant which is an array D
> [N, N].
> Is there a built-in functions to do it?
>
>
> Best regards,
> jdu

putting "determinant" in the help file returns the function DETERM...

Jean
Re: Is there a function to calculate the determinant of a N×N matrix? [message #65986 is a reply to message #65985] Thu, 09 April 2009 06:50 Go to previous message
duxiyu@gmail.com is currently offline  duxiyu@gmail.com
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Thank you again! ^_^

On Apr 9, 9:43 pm, Wox <s...@nomail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:36:54 -0700 (PDT), "dux...@gmail.com"
>
>
>
> <dux...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks a lot.
>> It seems that the only difference between DETERM and LA_DETERM is on
>> the methods of calculation, doesn't  it?
>
>> On Apr 9, 9:24 pm, Wox <s...@nomail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:06:04 -0700 (PDT), "dux...@gmail.com"
>
>>> <dux...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi, all.
>
>>>> I want to calculate the value of the determinant which is an array D
>>>> [N, N].
>>>> Is there a built-in functions to do it?
>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> jdu
>
>>> DETERM or LA_DETERM
>
> They both use LU decomposition but LA_determ uses LAPACK LA_LUDC for
> complex input.
Re: Is there a function to calculate the determinant of a N×N matrix? [message #65988 is a reply to message #65985] Thu, 09 April 2009 06:36 Go to previous message
duxiyu@gmail.com is currently offline  duxiyu@gmail.com
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Thanks a lot.
It seems that the only difference between DETERM and LA_DETERM is on
the methods of calculation, doesn't it?



On Apr 9, 9:24 pm, Wox <s...@nomail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:06:04 -0700 (PDT), "dux...@gmail.com"
>
> <dux...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>
>> I want to calculate the value of the determinant which is an array D
>> [N, N].
>> Is there a built-in functions to do it?
>
>> Best regards,
>> jdu
>
> DETERM or LA_DETERM
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