On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:32 PM Pierre Guillot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >Can Sage do this determinant on its own? > > Sage tries to convert the matrix to a dense one before computing the > determinant (the documentation for sparse matrices says so). And as a result, > you never see the end of it, no. > I presume your polynomial entries are mostly constants, otherwise you'd get a really huge polynomial as an answer. Do you know if your matrix has many rows/columns with just one non-0? This could be a good heuristic to do for sparse determinants, get rid of these first of all...
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