nonsymm eigenvalues...

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Brian Gough wrote:

> At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:58:48 -0500 (EST),
> Robert G. Brown wrote:
>> Also, what is likely to happen if I call the symmetric routines for a
>> nonsymmetric matrix?  They seem to "work" and still produce eigenvalues
>> and eigenvectors.  Are those garbage?
>
> It just uses the lower triangular part and assumes symmetry, anything
> in the upper triangular part is ignored.

Garbage indeed.  Thanks.

   rgb

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