There are different methods for finding the determinant too. See the docstring of the .det() method.
Aaron Meurer On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Colin wrote: >> So it finished in about 11s. How long does it take for you? > > About the same, I'm pretty impressed with the performance on this > calculation. > >> But I don't know how to simplify this. In my experience, if you need >> to invert some matrices, different methods give different results, I >> think reasonably simple results gives the ADJ method, see the >> docstring of the .inv() method. > > I actually don't want to invert the matrix, just calculate the > determinant symbolically - it may just be that this calculation is too > massive for symbolic algebra. > > —cjc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
