[plt-scheme] Matrix Determinants

jerzy.karczmarczuk at info.unicaen.fr skrev:
> Geoffrey S. Knauth :
>> Not sure if this helps:  Aubrey Jaffer's SLIB has determinant in  
>> determ.scm.
>> On Mar 28, 2008, at 01:39, Henk Boom wrote:
>>> On 28/03/2008, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>>>> Wikipedia suggests gaussian elimination...
>>>
>>> Yup, that's more or less the algorithm I'm using, except that I
>>> discard the first row and column of the matrix when they are no longer
>>> needed. ...
> 
> If I am not mistaken, the SLIB matrix package uses the Laplace expansion
> for the determinant. So, ~ n!. (At least, the version I saw used that,
> looping over the first line and recurring through cofactor & determinant.

That sounce plasible, since JACAL is an algebraic system, so the
matrix entries can be expressions.


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Jens Axel Søgaard