Bug: det() gives false zero

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Jul-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| Looking at src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/det.cc, it seems that this is a feature -
| if a numerically singular matrix is detected, zero is returned.
| Perhaps John can comment on why he made this choice.

If I was the one who did that, then I no longer remember.  If it is
the wrong thing to do, then please submit a patch.  It should not be
hard to do, as it appears that the Matrix::determinant method already
returns the value you expect in this case.

Thanks,

jwe