On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Raymond Toy wrote:
< Leo Butler wrote:
< > Hello,
< > I have encountered the following problem. I am unsure of its origins.
< > The charpoly of the 6x6 matrix is (x^3-3x-1)^2, so the eigenvector
< > problem can be solved symbolically (maple does it in < 1sec on my
< > work desktop).
< > Leo
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>
< >
< This doesn't help, but with cmucl, the problem is that algsys says the
< system is too complicated to solve. I don't know why gcl crashes this
< way. It shouldn't.
Yes, with clisp I get a slightly different error message, too:
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
CDR: 0 is not a list
In both cases, it is maxima 5.16.3.
Leo
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