-----sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote: -----
>To: Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu>
>From: sen1 at math.msu.edu
>Date: 08/16/2007 06:50AM
>cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu
>Subject: Re: [Maxima] printing in eigens_by_jacobi
>
>Thanks Barton,
> BTW, is there a reason why the 2-norm is not an option for mat_norm?
Sloth -- but the 2-norm for a non-numeric matrix is unlikely to
be useful even in those rare cases when it is algebraic. My primary
interest
for linearalgebra was symbolic not numerical calculations.
>Also, since there you have included the Jacobi algorithm, why not also
>put in singular values? E.g. a function like svd(A) for a matrix A as
>in octave.
Don't we have that via translation of lapack? I know Ray added some stuff
earlier this year -- I haven't used it yet.
Barton