Re: Wierd problems with Mathematica - inversion of a 12x12 matrix
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- Subject: [mg56092] Re: Wierd problems with Mathematica - inversion of a 12x12 matrix
- From: "Ray Koopman" <koopman at sfu.ca>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:47:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Maybe the inverse has been calculated, and the time is being spent formatting the output. Try Timing[B = Inverse[A];] or something similar that suppresses the matrix output, and then look at B an element at a time. Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Hi > > I am solving a problem using f95 that involves solving a 12x12 coupled > linear system. I have written out the matrix A (A x = f), and instead of > calculating the inverse repeatedly for different values of the input > parameters, I am trying to calculate the symbolic inverse of the matrix, > post multiply it with the RHS and code the resulting 12 equations for x_i > into fortran. > > I believe this is the sensible way to do it, since this system needs to be > solved lots of times (its part of a half-infinite integral) and inverting > such a system numerically would not only be time consuming, but also > obscure possible stability problems. > > Now, I am using Mathematica 5.1 (multiprocessor Sun machine) to do it, but > the inverse has been running for the past 40 minutes without any result. A > prior attempt to run it with Mathematica 4.1 (single processor Pentium M > Linux machine) resulted in an aborted process. > > Out of a hunch, I just exported the notebook to text, and used "math" (the > text version of Mathematica) to run it through. Less that two minutes > later, I had an answer. The problem is that the answer (in nohup.out) is so > ill formatted (I used MatrixForm with FullSimplify) that it is impossible to > make sense of. > > OTOH, the graphical Notebook is still chugging away. Has anyone seen this > odd behaviour before ? > > Thanks.