[Numpy-discussion] Question on LinAlg Inverse Algorithm

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 17:48, Mark Janikas <mjanikas at esri.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Last week I posted a question involving the identification of linear
> dependent columns of a matrix… but now I am finding an interesting result
> based on the linalg.inv() function… sometime I am able to invert a matrix
> that has linear dependent columns and other times I get the LinAlgError()…
> this suggests that there is some kind of random component to the INV
> method.  Is this normal?  Thanks much ahead of time,

With exactly the same input in the same process? Can you provide that input?

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Robert Kern

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