I'm probably not. New to this language, still figuring things out. The 
matrix type seems to be inferred correctly though. I'll put a gist up in a 
bit to try and get some more relevant feedback.

On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 9:54:53 AM UTC-5, Andreas Noack Jensen wrote:
>
> I don't think you are right about LAPACK. The code tries to promote to a 
> type which is stable under lu factorizing which is the intermediate step in 
> the calculation. The problem could be that your matrix type is not inferred 
> correctly. Please try to let your type by subtype of Number and then define 
> your matrix by
>
> a = Mytype[mytype(1) mytype(2); mytype(3) mytype(4)]
>
> and see if it works.
>
>
> 2014-03-25 15:29 GMT+01:00 James Crist <[email protected] <javascript:>>:
>
>> Yeah, I get a "ERROR: no method Triangular{..." error, because my type 
>> doesn't subtype Number. If I do subtype number, then it wants a conversion 
>> function to convert it to a float, so it can use the LAPACK routines.
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 9:22:29 AM UTC-5, Andreas Noack Jensen wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried to invert it? Maybe it works already. There is a generic 
>>> inv in base/linalg/generic.jl. You'll have to define a one method for you 
>>> type and maybe also a zero method.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-03-25 15:14 GMT+01:00 James Crist <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> I have a type I've defined. It's not a number, but it has all arithmetic 
>>>> operations defined for it. Is there a way to calculate the inverse of a 
>>>> matrix of a user defined type? For example, if I was to define:
>>>>
>>>> a = [mytype(1) mytype(2); mytype(3) mytype(4)]
>>>> b = inv(a)
>>>>
>>>> Looking through base, there doesn't seem to be a way to find inverses 
>>>> of non-numeric matrices (although I may be missing it). For my case, even 
>>>> a 
>>>> simple algorithm that only works well for small matrices (<10x10) would be 
>>>> more than sufficient. If a way for doing this doesn't currently exist, 
>>>> I'll 
>>>> probably try to roll my own.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Med venlig hilsen
>>>
>>> Andreas Noack Jensen
>>>  
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Med venlig hilsen
>
> Andreas Noack Jensen
>  

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