Jeroen Demeyer on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:01:10 +0200


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??gaussred is wrong


Hello pari-dev,

In the ??gaussred help, it is said that the result will be upper-triangular but this is not true. I suppose this happens when the given matrix is not (positive) definite. The formula which is written in ??gaussred is correct though, if one replaces j>i by j!=i. So I think the docs needs to clarified.

gp> qfgaussred([0,1;1,0])
%302 =
[1/2 1]

[-1 -1/2]