On May 23, 2008, at 9:13 AM, jinzhu d wrote: 1 Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro~{Hg:N@{SC~}ublasHiragino Kaku Gothic Pro~{Gs>X~}STHeiti~{Us5DDf#?~}how to get the inverse matrix ? 2 Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro~{SP1H~}STHeiti~{=OMjU{5DVPND0oVzND<~#?~}how can i get a copy of helpfile in chinese ? Most of the time you don't need A^(-1) only a solution AX = B or XA = B which can be computed more efficiently than A^(-1)B or BA^(-1) using a computed A^(-1). for a general dense matrix would use an LU decomposition with partial pivoting.