On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:32 PM Pierre Guillot <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> >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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