[sage-devel] Re: Error in the determinant of a simple 4x4 matrix

2013-04-04 Thread Eric Gourgoulhon
Thanks for having set up a ticket for this. On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:16:31 AM UTC+2, Nils Bruin wrote: > > I guess someone should fix this at some point: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14403 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "s

[sage-devel] Re: Error in the determinant of a simple 4x4 matrix

2013-04-02 Thread Nils Bruin
I guess someone should fix this at some point: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/14403 -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: Error in the determinant of a simple 4x4 matrix

2013-03-30 Thread Nils Bruin
On Mar 30, 10:14 am, Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: > Hello, > > I've noticed this strange behavior (bug ?) on the following elementary > computation: > > sage:  a = matrix([[sqrt(x),0,0,0], [0, 1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, > 1]]) > sage: det(a) > ... > TypeError: no conversion of this rational to i

[sage-devel] Re: Error in the determinant of a simple 4x4 matrix

2013-03-30 Thread Volker Braun
Its not linear algebra but comes from the symbolic ring stuff: sage: var('x,y') (x, y) sage: (y - sqrt(x)).polynomial(None, ring=SR[y]) --- TypeError Traceback (m