On 11/24/10 12:07 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
The whole story is that I have a matrix A and matrix B both of which
have rational entries and they both have pretty crazy entries too.
Their magnitude spans many orders of magnitude, but inverse(A)*B is an
okay matrix and I can deal with it using floating point numbers. I
only need this exact fraction business for inverse(A)*B (yes, a
preconditioner would be useful :))
And I wouldn't want to write the whole matrix into a file, call Maple
on it, parse the result, etc.
So after all I might just code the inversion via Gauss elimination
myself in a way that can deal with fractions, shouldn't be that hard.
+1000. This is almost always the right thing to do whether you have floats or
rationals.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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