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At Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:58:48 -0500 (EST),
Robert G. Brown wrote:
> Also, what is likely to happen if I call the symmetric routines for a
> nonsymmetric matrix?  They seem to "work" and still produce eigenvalues
> and eigenvectors.  Are those garbage?

It just uses the lower triangular part and assumes symmetry, anything
in the upper triangular part is ignored.

-- 
Brian Gough