Hi We're getting different results for an eigenvector in Sage 5.11 and Sage 5.12. We think 5.11 is the correct answer and 5.12 has flipped the values to negative.
sage@hummingbird-lan:~$ cat eigenbug.sage A=matrix(RDF,[[0, 1/2, 1/3, 0, 0], \ [1/2, 0, 0, 1/3, 0], \ [1/2, 0, 0, 1/3, 1/2], \ [0, 1/2, 1/3, 0, 1/2], \ [0, 0, 1/3, 1/3, 0]]); print A.eigenvectors_right()[0][1][0] sage@hummingbird-lan:~$ sage --version Sage Version 5.12, Release Date: 2013-10-07 sage@hummingbird-lan:~$ sage eigenbug.sage (-0.36514837167, -0.36514837167, -0.547722557505, -0.547722557505, -0.36514837167) sage@hummingbird-lan:~$ ./src/sage-5.11/sage --version Sage Version 5.11, Release Date: 2013-08-13 sage@hummingbird-lan:~$ ./src/sage-5.11/sage eigenbug.sage (0.36514837167, 0.36514837167, 0.547722557505, 0.547722557505, 0.36514837167) sage@hummingbird-lan:~$ Regards, Evans -- http://users.aims.ac.za/~evans Evans Doe Ocansey Tutor Africa Institute for Mathematical Sciences South Africa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.