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Re: Calculating matrix permanent
Posted:
Feb 1, 2013 3:18 PM
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On 2013-02-01, J.B. Wood <john.wood@nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> On 01/26/2013 11:09 AM, Mike Terry wrote:
>> I'd never heard of the permanent before, but checking Wickipedia it seems
>> it's defined just like the determinant, but with all plus signs. So in your
>> example:
><snip>
> Hello, and that's the problem with folks who rely solely on Wiki for
> info. Someone invents a term that's not in common usage or in
> peer-reviewed papers or textbooks, posts it on Wiki, and everyone thinks
> it's been around since the time of Greek mathematicians. Sometimes you
> just gotta get up off your butt and go to the public/university library
> or dust off one of your college math textbooks (assuming you kept them).
> Sincerely,
Matrix permanent has been around a lot longer than that; I
do not know who invented it.
Unfortunately, it is not as easy to compute as the determinant,
and it does not seem to have any geometric meaning, as the
determinant has. Its computation is known to be NP complete.
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