Thanks for the response, but I don't think that submatrices will help much 
with what we're doing. Do you know if sage invokes singular for gaussian 
elimination?

On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:29:44 AM UTC-4, Martin Albrecht wrote:
>
> No, there isn't such a function. However, some matrices support "windows", 
> these are submatrices which are created without copying the data out. 
> Hence, 
> doing the splitting up/combining step is quite cheap. See: 
>
>   matrix_window_modn_dense.pyx 
>
> but it will probably take some code-writing to get it to do what you want. 
>
> On Tuesday 12 Jun 2012, Thomas Klotz wrote: 
> > I was wondering if anyone knows a way for sage to perform gaussian 
> > elimination on a matrix, but only up to the nth row and will stop at 
> that 
> > point. 
> > 
> > I realize that I could just split up the matrix and perform the 
> algorithm 
> > on that part of it, and just re-join it to the rest of the matrix, but I 
> > was wondering if there is some built-in function for this. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Tom 
>
> Cheers, 
> Martin 
>
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