Just a short follow on...
Curiosity got the best of me and I tried the "entermatrix" function in
xmaxima on a slackware linux 8.1 machine...I had the same problem as
described below.
I also tried the same thing, but ran maxima as a "session" under Texmacs.
This time the function worked just fine!??
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill [mailto:wcvinyard at earthlink]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 19:24
To: synthespian; maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
Subject: RE: [Maxima] Confirm bug in entermatrix?
Hmmm...
I tried the following:
(C1) entermatrix(3,3); ##At this point maxima appeared to hang, with
nothing showing below this line.
Is the matrix 1. Diagonal 2. Symmetric 3. Antisymmetric 4. General ##As
soon as I hit Ctrl-g, from this line thru the error message appeared.
Answer 1, 2, 3 or 4 :
Error: Console interrupt.
Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
Error signalled by MREAD-RAW.
Broken at SYSTEM:TERMINAL-INTERRUPT. Type :H for Help.
MAXIMA>>:r
(C2) entermatrix(3,3); ##same this occurred this time. However, I tried
entering the required arguments anyway...
1; ##Diagonal matrix
1; ##First diagonal element
1; ##Second diagonal element
1; ##Third diagonal element...for each of the last four entries, I had to
hit enter twice
Is the matrix 1. Diagonal 2. Symmetric 3. Antisymmetric 4. General ##
a double tap on enter caused this line and (D2) to appear
Answer 1, 2, 3 or 4 : Row 1 Column 1: Row 2 Column 2: Row 3 Column 3:
Matrix entered.
[ 1 0 0 ]
[ ]
(D2) [ 0 1 0 ]
[ ]
[ 0 0 1 ]
(C3)
So the function appears to work, but not nicely.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: maxima-admin at math
[mailto:maxima-admin@math.utexas.edu]On Behalf Of synthespian
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:41
To: maxima@www.ma.utexas.edu
Subject: Confirm bug in entermatrix?
Hello people --
As I was moving my way up the long ascending path of knowledge, wisdom
and logic, I could not but help noticing that the "entermatrix" command
will not produce any visible results on my Maxima 5.9.0 (Windows).
I would be thrilled to know if this is a bug, or is it just me and Mr.
Gates?
Even more amusing would be, if indeed there's a bug, if someone could
kindly point out it's vicinity in the source code, so we could all
become more enlightened. This would be great for learning Lisp and
Computer Algebra.
Thanks,
Regs,
Henry
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