[Jnumerical-general] Linear Algebra

[Drew B. <dba...@ri...>]

Hi all,
    I was originally very interested in Jnumeric until I discovered that
there was essentially no work in the Linear Algebra area. Frankly, this area
particularly worries me--- I believe it is very hard to do numerical linear
algebra well. Numeric isn't worth much to me without things like svd(), but
I understand it has more broad appeal to many others. Anyway, in the
meantime, from recommendations of two friends who do pretty serious
scientific computing, I started using COLT for my calculations. It really
seems to do a lot of the math quite well and very quickly. It is composed of
quite a few parts, and as Daniel rightly pointed out to me, some of the less
important parts may have liscensing issues. Nevertheless it may very well
make a strong base for a Linear Algebra component to Jnumeric.
    Sorry I haven't been of more help, but I thought the pointer to COLT
might be valuable. Best of luck,

    yours,
    --drew