[sage-devel] Re: Computing determinants of obviously singular matrices

2019-03-18 Thread Maximilian Jaroschek
On Friday, March 15, 2019 at 10:59:06 PM UTC+1, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > > Hi, > > If the determinant is obviously zero, then you don't need to run the > computation. If a preprocessing to check zero rows or columns is added, > then the determinant computation would become slower for usual nontrivia

[sage-devel] Computing determinants of obviously singular matrices

2019-03-15 Thread Maximilian Jaroschek
Hello, I'm using the current developer version of sage and noticed that when computing determinants of matrices over polynomial rings and rational functions, cases where the determinant is easily seen to be zero due to zero rows or columns can take an unreasonable long time to compute. I comp