Re: Math Package to Solve Linear Equations?

[Tyler MacDonald <tyler@yi.org>]

> to solve systems of linear equations - i.e. enter the matrix and the y 
> values and the program inverts the matrix and reports the x values.  I know 
> how to do it manually but it is laborious for large matrices.  Perhaps 
> Openoffice.calc/solver does this but it is not clear to me how to enter 
> data for solver to do this.  apt-cache search matrix |grep inversion 
> doesn't turn up anything.

> Would someone please beat me over the head and point me to a simple package 
> to do this job?

  Thomas,
	The "PDL" package should do what you need. There's a quick
introduction here:

	http://search.cpan.org/~csoe/PDL-2.4.3/Basic/Pod/Impatient.pod

	Cheers,
		Tyler