[Bug] v5, kernel crash from NullSpace
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- Subject: [mg49619] [Bug] v5, kernel crash from NullSpace
- From: Scott Morrison <scott at math.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 03:48:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: scott at math.berkeley.edu
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
$Version == "5.0 for Microsoft Windows (November 18, 2003)"
yet another bug I've found in NullSpace, in v5. Don't ask me why you'd
want to do this, but
NullSpace[{SparseArray[{}, {2, 1}]}]
crashes my kernel, with a Windows system error, every time. (Whereas it
should just produce an error message complaining about the argument not
being rectangular matrix.)
Any ideas?
Another, possibly related bug in NullSpace, is illustrated by the
following example;
NullSpace[{{{2},{3}}}]
gives an error message, saying the argument is not a non-empty
rectangular matrix, while
NullSpace[{SparseArray[{{2}, {3}}]}]
which should give the same result, gives
{{{-3/2},1}}
Scott Morrison