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# linboxing

## Kernel-level access to LinBox exact linear algebra routines

Version 0.5.2

9 June 2011

Paul Smith
Email: paul.smith@st-andrews.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pas
Address:
School of Computer Science,
University of St Andrews
St Andrews,
UK.

### Copyright

© 2007-2008 National University of Ireland, Galway © 2011 University of St Andrews, UK

The linboxing package is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This file is part of the linboxing package, though as documentation it is released under the GNU Free Documentation License (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL).

The linboxing package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The linboxing package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the linboxing package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

For more details, see http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html.

### Acknowledgements

The linboxing package is supported by a Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge grant based at the Department of Mathematics, NUI Galway (MTKD-CT-2006-042685)

### Contents

1 Introduction
1.1 Sample timings
2 Installation and Use
2.1 Installing the LinBox library
2.1-1 Setting up base system
2.1-2 Building and installing Givaro
2.1-3 Building and installing LinBox
2.1-4 Testing LinBox
2.2 Building the linboxing kernel module
2.3 Starting GAP with LinBox-friendly memory management
2.4 Loading and testing the linboxing package
2.5 Recompiling this documentation
3 Function Reference
3.1 Replacements for GAP functions
3.1-1 LinBox.Determinant
3.1-2 LinBox.Rank
3.1-3 LinBox.Trace
3.1-4 LinBox.SolutionMat
3.2 Miscellaneous functions
3.2-1 LinBox.SetMessages
3.2-2 MakeLinboxingDoc
3.2-3 TestLinboxing
4 Implementation
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