Re: Testing for Positive Definiteness

Try to compute the Cholesky factorization. If the matrix is positive
definite, all of the numbers you need to take the square root of will
be positive, at least in infinite precision arithmetic. If you come
across a negative or zero to sqrt, then the matrix is not
computationally positive definite.

Dave

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