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From: john@spectre.unm.edu (John Prentice)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Need complex matrix solver for CM
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.190724.26161@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 19:07:24 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.161918.10218@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <1991Jun27.161918.10218@leland.Stanford.EDU> francis@hanauma.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
>John Prentice writes:
>
>  I need a routine to solve a dense complex valued linear system on the
>  CM2, probably using a LU decomposition and Gaussian elimination.  From
>  what I know of it, CMSSL only has software like this for real valued
>  matrices (please correct me if I am wrong), while I need complex valued
>  ones.  Any help would be most appreciated.
>
>Re-write the code in REAL; it will probably illuminate.
>						
>							Fido
>
>francis@hanauma.stanford.edu

This is an amazingly presumptuous, not to mention useless, comment.  If I
have to write it in REAL, I will.  But to do so completely obscures the
elegant structure of the matrices I am solving and requires both artificial
and inelegant constructs.  I would vastly prefer to have software to handle
the complex matrices as they are and keep my code simple.

John
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John K. Prentice    john@spectre.unm.edu (Internet)
Computational Physics Group
Amparo Corporation, Albuquerque, NM