From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue May 20 13:20:12 2003 Subject: What method does octave use to get eigenvalues? From: Jeff Sadowski To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:19:39 -0600 (MDT) What part of the source code deals with eigenvalues (what file inparticular) I was trying to think of how I would do it and I ran into a problem of factoring nth degree polynomials I looked back at how I was taught to do it and found no good answers they always had us guess and factor an item out but that method doesn't work with me. I need an algorithmic approch. Is there a way to get eigenvalues without factoring? please point me to the code that does eigenvalues and or a good web page describing a method of achieving eigenvalues without factoring. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------