Re: matrix with parameters

[Sebastian Schöps]

Colin Macdonald-2 wrote
> On 01/07/17 03:37 AM, f.g.fornari wrote:
> Good luck.  In case you do want to try again with Octave and the 
> Symbolic pkg:
> 
>  >> pkg load symbolic
> 
>  >> syms a
> 
>  >> A = [a, 0; 0, a]
> A = (sym 2×2 matrix)
> 
>    ⎡a  0⎤
>    ⎢    ⎥
>    ⎣0  a⎦
> 
>  >> det(A)
> ans = (sym)
> 
>     2
>    a

Thanks Colin for giving the Octave example. In my experience, it's often
better to clearly seperate between numerics and symbolics (even though
reality is nowadys rather grey than black&white). This is not meant to
discredite the symbolic package.



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