James Stroud wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm using numpy to calculate determinants of matrices that look like > this (13x13): > > [[ 0. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.] [snip] > But I have a feeling I'm exceeding the capacity of floats here. Does > anyone have an idea for how to treat this? Is it absurd to think I could > get a determinant of this matrix? Is there a python package that could > help me? > > Many thanks for any answers. > > James
in order to verify that this result is correct, you could get the eigenvector and eigenvalues of this matrix (for example with numpy.linalg.eig) and check that they make sense; the determinant simply is the product of all the eigenvalues. gd luck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
