Re: lu decomposition without any permutations

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 14/02/2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for all the answers. I was just being lazy to write the routine
>  myself. I was so confident that octave will have one of its own way of
>  doing lu decomposition without pivoting.

The only situation I can think of in which pivoting is undesirable is
when your matrix has some sparse structure that pivoting would
destroy.

You should look at the routines for sparse matrices that Octave has.

- Jordi G. H.