[Maxima] Documentation Bug in eigenvectors()?

Rob Frohne frohro at wallawalla.edu
Tue Feb 19 17:56:56 CST 2008


Hi,

The documentation claims that the eigenvectors returned are unit
eigenvectors (which seems to me that they should be unit length), but
the first entry is 1, and the others aren't zero on the matrix I tried.
Here is my output.

(%i1) matrix(
 [25,7], 
 [7,-25]
);
(%o1) matrix([25,7],[7,-25])
(%i2) eigenvectors(%);
(%o2) [[[-sqrt(674),sqrt(674)],[1,1]],[1,-(sqrt(674)+25)/7],[1,(sqrt(674)-25)/7]]
(%i3) 

Is this a bug?

Best regards,

Rob
-- 
Rob Frohne <frohro at wallawalla.edu>
Walla Walla University


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