Thank you for you reply. Testing out your overloading hypothesis a la the below code, resulted in an HTTP 500 - Internal server error.

#! /usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;    
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser); 
use CGI qw(:standard escapeHTML);    
use Math::MatrixReal;
use Math::Complex;

#my $wakky = 7;
my $wakky =Math::Complex->make(5, 6);
my $matrix1 = Math::MatrixReal->new_from_rows([
       [1,1,1,2],[1,0,$wakky,3],[2,-1,0,-1],[ 0,1,0,1] ]);

print header (), start_html (-title => "Matrix Ops");
print "\$matrix1 = ", $matrix1 ,"<br>\n";
print end_html ();
exit(0);

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However, if $wakky is changed to a real number Math::MatrixReal is happy. I noticed in the CPAN Math::Complex documention that there was no mention of overload working with matrices.

If I've got something amiss, please let me know, I'd appreciate your further suggestion. In the interim, I'll start following up on the others' suggestions.

Thanks and best regards - Gary

In reply to Re^2: Working with complex, not real number matrices by gmacfadden
in thread Working with complex, not real number matrices by gmacfadden

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