[Numpy-discussion] Heigenvalues is broken

[Scott Ransom]

On November 19, 2001 02:36 pm, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
> This is definitely a hardware/compiler dependant feature.  I get the
> "right" answer on Solaris (with the forte compiler) but the same "wrong"
> answer as Alessandro on MacOS X/gcc.  I've tried fiddling with compiler
> options on my OS X box, to no avail.

But seemingly it is even stranger than this.  Here are my results from Debian 
unstable using Lapack 3.0 on an Athlon system:

Python 2.1.1 (#1, Nov 11 2001, 18:19:24)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
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>>> from LinearAlgebra import *
>>> a=array([[1,0],[0,1]])
>>> b=array([[0,1],[-1,0]])
>>> M=a+b*complex(0,1.0)
>>> Heigenvalues(M)
array([ 0.,  2.])

Scott


> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Travis Oliphant wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 November 2001 09:40 am, Alessandro Mirone wrote:
> > > Is it a problem of lapack3.0 of of
> > > LinearAlgebra.py?
> > > ..................... ==> (Eigenvalues should be (0,2))
> > >
> > > >>> a=array([[1,0],[0,1]])
> > > >>> b=array([[0,1],[-1,0]])
> > > >>> M=a+b*complex(0,1.0)
> > > >>> Heigenvalues(M)
> >
> > I suspect it is your lapack.  On an Athlon running Mandrake Linux with
> > the lapack-3.0-9 package, I get.
> >
> > >>> a=array([[1,0],[0,1]])
> > >>> b=array([[0,1],[-1,0]])
> > >>> M=a+b*complex(0,1.0)
> > >>> Heigenvalues(M)
> >
> > array([ 0.,  2.])
>
> This is definitely a hardware/compiler dependant feature.  I get the
> "right" answer on Solaris (with the forte compiler) but the same "wrong"
> answer as Alessandro on MacOS X/gcc.  I've tried fiddling with compiler
> options on my OS X box, to no avail.
>
> -Jeff
>
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