Re: Options for a very large computation
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- Subject: [mg77863] Re: Options for a very large computation
- From: Roman Pearce <rpearcea at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:06:35 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 17, 4:12 am, "Bob D" <rdob... at carleton.edu> wrote: > I'm solving a 24-by-24 linear system symbolically. This is not advisable. In general the determinant will have something like 24! = 6.2 x 10^23 terms, and by Cramer's rule this blowup will appear in every "solution". It is unlikely you will even be able to evaluate the "solutions". In any case, plugging numbers into any formula you get will be orders of magnitude more expensive than plugging numbers into the system and solving it directly. For what it's worth, there is a way to "symbolically solve" linear systems, but the output is essentially a program that plugs in numbers and branches accordingly. Other people in this newsgroup probably know more about that than I do.