[sage-support] Symbolic determinant solution

2010-08-28 Thread samrat
Hi, I am using sage-4.5.1. I need to symbolically find the determinant of a 4 X 4 matrix. So i do something like: sage: mat = [ [-,-,-,-],[-,-,-,-],[-,-,-,-],[-,-,-,-] ] sage: A = matrix(mat) sage: solve(det(A)==0,c) Here c is one of the given algebraic quantities. The solution has been provide

[sage-support] Symbolic determinant

2010-08-12 Thread vasu
Hi I wanted to know how could one compute symbolic determinants. To give an idea of what I am looking for, R.=PolynomialRing(QQ,'x') M = [ x^a,x^b][x^c x^d] I would like to compute the determinant of the 2*2 matrix M, say. Now, I know that a,b,c,d are all integers but I don't want to give them val