On Jan 24, 3:18 pm, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
