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Asked: 2026-05-15T14:50:47+00:00

I’m in search for a free package that do most matrix/vector operations. I can

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I’m in search for a free package that do most matrix/vector operations. I can write some basic functions myself but for advanced ones like computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors I would prefer robust code and I would like to know if such packages are freely available. If I understand correctly Ada 2005 have more matrix operations facilities but it has a function to calculate the eigenvalues for a symmetric and hermitian matrices only. I’ll need a more general packages which can handle any kind of matrix.

An Ada95 matrix package (54KB tar.gz file) from Drexel Fusion Laboratory had the link: http://dflwww.ece.drexel.edu/research/ada/ but the page for this ink is non-existent today.

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    As suggested in John Barnes Rationale for Ada 2005, Ada’s Annex G: Numerics is not intended “as a substitute for professional libraries such as the renowned BLAS,” but nothing precludes an implementation from using BLAS internally. As a concrete example, the GNAT compiler implements both G.3.1 Real Vectors and Matrices and G.3.2 Complex Vectors and Matrices using BLAS and LAPACK. To see the details, you can examine the relevant package bodies:

    $ export ADA_INC = /your/path/to/adinclude
$ view $ADA_INC/$(gnatkr Ada.Numerics.Generic_Real_Arrays.adb)
$ view $ADA_INC/$(gnatkr Ada.Numerics.Generic_Complex_Arrays.adb)
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