You can also start with a random matrix A and then construct (A + A.transpose())/2, which would be symmetric. That might vary the distribution of the coefficients, though.
Cheers Javier On Jul 15, 7:13 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:09 PM, > > pierre.du...@gmail.com<pierre.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'd like to generate symmetric random matrices whose entries may be > > various distributions. Can I use random_matrix? In help > > (random_matrix), I haven't found any documentation on the *args and > > **kwds variables. > > Unfortunately, I think you can't. You'll have to make a list v of > the entries, then do A = matrix(n,v) > > Regarding random_matrix, if you do random_matrix(K,...) where K is a > field, then each element of the matrix > is computed by calling K.random_element, so you should see the docs on > K.random_element. > > William > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
