Re: manipulating block diagonal matrices
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- Subject: [mg37628] Re: manipulating block diagonal matrices
- From: Bill Rowe <listuser at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 06:59:00 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 11/5/02 at 5:05 AM, deb at alceon.com (David E. Burmaster) wrote: >Can anyone suggest efficient algorithms for calculating either or both >of these? > >(i) the inverse and (ii) the determinant of a block diagonal matrix? Is there a problem with the built in functions Det and Inverse that do this?