Simple Matrix class

Paul McGuire ptmcg at austin.rr.com
Thu Jan 25 02:57:00 EST 2007


On Jan 24, 3:18 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ill-conditioned matrices. You should grab a copy of _Matrix Computations_ by
> Gene H. Golub and Charles F. Van Loan.
>
> For example, try the Hilbert matrix n=6.
>
>   H_ij = 1 / (i + j - 1)
>

Sure enough, this gets ugly at n=6.

Thanks for the reference to Matrix Computations; I'll try to track down
a copy next time I'm at Half-Price Books.

Meanwhile, it's back to the day job...

-- Paul




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