From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec  6 14:04:42 1999
Subject: RE: LU decomposition/backsubstitution
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Michael Hanke <hanke at nada dot kth dot se>
Cc: Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 14:04:40 -0600 (CST)

On  6-Dec-1999, Michael Hanke <hanke at nada dot kth dot se> wrote:

| One could use the LU decomposition [L,U]=lu(A), and
| then x=U\(L\b). This works efficiently if octave sees that L and U are
| triangular (at least after permutation). Does octave see this?

No, not yet.

jwe



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