[LON-CAPA-users] looking for linear algebra library

[Peter Riegler]

Jay,

in addition to Stefan's email: I have tested your code on our server 
running version 2.5.3 of loncapa. There it works as it should. So I 
guess you are using a pre-2.5.3-version or even pre-2.5.2 (that's what I 
remember the bugfix has been released).

Peter

Stefan Bisitz wrote:

>>Jay Sullivan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Okay, maybe I spoke to soon. Is there a character limit on the 
>>
>>output of &cas?
>>
>>>When I try the following, the output seems truncated:
>>>
>>><script type="loncapa/perl">
>>>$s= 'maxima';
>>>$str = &cas($s,'invert(matrix([10,-4],[1,0.5]))');
>>></script>
>>>$str
>>>
>>>The output on the screen is:
>>>matrix([0.05555555555556,0.44444444444444],
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Riegler wrote:
> 
>>Here ist what maxima does:
>>(%i34) invert(matrix([10,-4],[1,0.5]))
>>;
>>(%o34) matrix([0.055555555555556,0.44444444444444],
>>              [-0.11111111111111,1.111111111111111])
>>(%i35) invert(matrix([10,-4],[1,1/2]));
>>(%o35) matrix([1/18,4/9],[-1/9,10/9])
>>(%i36)
>>
>>I have the uneasy feeling that we might have a bug here in 
>>lonmaxima (the part of loncapa which provides the interface
>>to maxima). I faintly remember to have fixed something
>> similar. I have to check.
>>
>>Thanks for pointing out.
> 
> 
> Peter, I guess that you mean our bugfix in lonmaxima (not
> lonmaxima.pm!). This fixed the issues with multiple output lines which
> came from maxima. I checked my test code which still works fine with
> official release lonmaxima 1.36 in LON-CAPA 2.5.3.
> 
> Guy, maybe you have any idea?
> 
> Stefan Bisitz
> 
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