#12966: Indefinite factorization for exact matrices
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       Reporter:  rbeezer         |         Owner:  jason, was        
           Type:  enhancement     |        Status:  needs_review      
       Priority:  minor           |     Milestone:  sage-5.1          
      Component:  linear algebra  |    Resolution:                    
       Keywords:  sd40.5          |   Work issues:                    
Report Upstream:  N/A             |     Reviewers:  Andrey Novoseltsev
        Authors:  Rob Beezer      |     Merged in:                    
   Dependencies:                  |      Stopgaps:                    
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Comment (by novoselt):

 For the documentation:
  * line 10032: Why the base ring for the diagonal matrix is mentioned
 explicitly? I think the output for `d` must be such that the appropriate
 matrix is constructed from `d` directly.
  * lines 10040-10042: Probably need one more space for perfect alignment.
  * line 10292: I don't understand the reference to RDF/CDF - how can they
 be used if they are not exact?

 Implementation-wise, I don't understand why error-handling is delegated to
 calling functions - checking for square matrices seems natural before the
 actual computation, detecting absence of the fraction field seems to be
 repeated and I don't understand at all what is accomplished by
 {{{
 except ValueError as e:
     raise ValueError(e)
 }}}
 can't it just be deleted without any effect on the behaviour? It seems to
 me that the only real work for non-underscore method is to convert `d` to
 a vector (which probably addressed my first comment on the documentation).
 It seems to me that either this can be the only thing left in this
 function with error-checking going to the underscore method or even the
 conversion can go there and we end up with a single function.

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