Why I think lapack matrices should not be converted to list-of-lists.

>>>>> "sen1" == sen1  <sen1 at math.msu.edu> writes:

    sen1> If it is not too silly, I think it would be good to have both floats
    sen1> and bigfloats supported, perhaps in separate packages. It might take
    sen1> a lot longer to run, but, in some cases, the user might be willing to wait.

    sen1>   There are a number of applications of moderate size, say matrices of
    sen1>    order up to 500x500 where knowing the bigfloat answers might be
    sen1>    useful.

LAPACK only supports 2 precisions:  single and double.  I am only
doing the double precision version since maxima normally operates in
double-precision.

Ray