Hi,
I have a 480x480 sparse matrix of rank 479
trying to solve
A\ones(480,1)
makes matlab throw a warning and return garbage
>> A\ones(480,1)
Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled.
Results may be inaccurate. RCOND = 3.815118e-20.
ans =
1.0e+17 *
-0.2637
-0.2637
-0.2637
-0.2637
-0.2637
-0.2637
-0.2637
on the other hand Octave hangs forever.
Is there a way to check before-hand whether the system can be solved
to prevent Octave from going into "Guru meditation mode"?
Is this to be considered a bug?
I am using Thomas' 3.2.3 binary on Mac OS X.
c.