Is there no way I can do this with a column in the matrix that is just polynomials in z? Unfortunately I cant take them out! Thanks

Is there no way I can do this with a column in the matrix that is just polynomials in z? Unfortunately I cant take them out! Thanks

Thanks for the reply! I am still a little confused (sorry new to this). I am going to be working qwith very large matrices so I need to call on matlab to do my calculations as they currently max out maples memory, is that how I define the matrix for that?

This is what I am doing:

with(Matlab):
a:=Matrix([[1,z],[1,z^2]]);
                       
Matlab[det](a);
Error, (in Matlab:-setvar) unable to store 'Re(z)' when datatype=float[8]

Thanks for the help

Thanks for the reply! I am still a little confused (sorry new to this). I am going to be working qwith very large matrices so I need to call on matlab to do my calculations as they currently max out maples memory, is that how I define the matrix for that?

This is what I am doing:

with(Matlab):
a:=Matrix([[1,z],[1,z^2]]);
                       
Matlab[det](a);
Error, (in Matlab:-setvar) unable to store 'Re(z)' when datatype=float[8]

Thanks for the help