Re: [ROOT] TMatrix Invert Mult

From: Eddy Offermann (eddy@rentec.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 15:53:28 MEST


Hi Dean,

I will look into it.

For the moment replace:

TMatrix b(2,2);
b=a.Invert();

by

TMatrix b(TMatrix::kInverted,a)

Best Regards,
Eddy

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> Hi there,
> 
> Please inspect the following piece of code which attempts to perform one
> of the most basic matrix operations, that of multiplying a matrix by its
> inverse to obtain the unit matrix:
> 
> root [0] TMatrix a(2,2)
> root [1] a(0,0)=1.0;
> root [2] a(1,0)=2.0;
> root [3] a(0,1)=3.0;
> root [4] a(1,1)=4.0;
> root [5] TMatrix b(2,2)
> root [6] b=a.Invert();
> root [7] TMatrix c(2,2)
> root [8] c.Mult(b,a)
> root [9] c(0,0)
> (Real_t)5.50000000000000000e+00
> root [10] c(1,0)
> (Real_t)(-2.50000000000000000e+00)
> root [11] c(0,1)
> (Real_t)(-3.75000000000000000e+00)
> root [12] c(1,1)
> (Real_t)1.75000000000000000e+00
> 
> The results look much too precise for this to be a conversion error. Can
> anyone see where I'm going wrong?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Simon
> 

Eddy A.J.M. Offermann
Renaissance Technologies Corp.
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e-mail: eddy@rentec.com
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