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Re: nonsymm eigenvalues...


On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Brian Gough wrote:

At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:58:48 -0500 (EST),
Robert G. Brown wrote:
Also, what is likely to happen if I call the symmetric routines for a
nonsymmetric matrix?  They seem to "work" and still produce eigenvalues
and eigenvectors.  Are those garbage?

It just uses the lower triangular part and assumes symmetry, anything in the upper triangular part is ignored.

Garbage indeed. Thanks.


rgb

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