On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
> On 9/8/11 11:00 AM, William Stein wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Jason Grout<jason-s...@creativetrax.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9/8/11 10:30 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> we should also add that both A.solve_right and A.solve_left claim to
>>>> solve Ax=b...
>>>
>>>
>>> Yep.  solve_left should be solve_right, IIRC.  See
>>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7852.  I think this was an
>>> error
>>> from when I did the RDF switch to a numpy backend.  As you can see, Rob
>>> posted a patch to fix it (and enhanced a few other things as well).
>>>
>>> Note that A2.solve_left(b) gives the same vector as A2.inverse()*b
>>
>> So you made solve_left use the numpy backend and actually do
>> solve_right, and left solve_right to use the generic Gauss elimination
>> code, so neither is right.   Trac 7852 really needs to get in.
>> Release manager, merge that sucker.
>
> Yes, that's also my conclusion after trying to unify our two answers.
>
> Jason

Our current release manager (leif) just made this a blocker.

William

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