Hi Jason,
thanks, you hit the nail on the head - I had not downloaded the latest
version..it works fine now, and I've learned a valuable lesson!
Ciaran
On Jan 19, 11:28 pm, Jason Grout wrote:
> c mullan wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > by general theory I know that an invertible transformation matrix
c mullan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> by general theory I know that an invertible transformation matrix P
> exists such that A = ~P*J*P where J is the Jordan Normal Form of a
> square matrix A. When I try to calculate P, some strange things
> happen..
>
> M=MatrixSpace(GF(2),7)
> A=M.random_element()
>
