Re: [sage-devel] Bug or unfortunate feature?

2019-09-06 Thread Nils Bruin
On Friday, September 6, 2019 at 1:19:48 AM UTC-7, Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) wrote: > > > I would say that there is a bug in the 'default' algorithm. Note that > changing the algorithm leads to: > > sage: A.echelon_form(algorithm='partial_pivoting') > [ 1 0

Re: [sage-devel] Bug or unfortunate feature?

2019-09-06 Thread Thierry
Hi, On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:33:34PM -0400, David Joyner wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 6:29 PM David Guichard > wrote: > > > When is a linear system consistent? > > > > This isn't helpful: > > > > a,b,c=var('a b c') > > A=matrix([[-4,5,9,a],[1, -2, 1, b],[-2,4,-2,c]]) > > A.echelon_form() >

Re: [sage-devel] Bug or unfortunate feature?

2019-09-05 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 6:29 PM David Guichard wrote: > When is a linear system consistent? > > This isn't helpful: > > a,b,c=var('a b c') > A=matrix([[-4,5,9,a],[1, -2, 1, b],[-2,4,-2,c]]) > A.echelon_form() > A.rref() > > [1 0 -23/3 0] > [0 1 -13/3 0] > [0 0