Daniel Nogradi wrote: > I'm just getting started with numpy/scipy and first would like to get > a view of what it can do and what it can't. The main idea is to move > from maple to python and the first thing that poped up is the fact > that maple is very convenient for both formal manipulations and exact > integer calculations. For instance if a matrix has integer entries and > the eigenvalues are integers maple can find these exactly. > > Can numpy/scipy do this? Or the eigenvalues will always be floating > point numbers?
Have a look at SAGE (Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation) http://www.sagemath.org/ Jaap -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list