PFAFF > and PFAFF LISP contain a function called PFAFFIAN(N,LIST) which returns the Pfaffian of its list argument. PFAFFIAN takes two arguments. The first is an integer which denotes the order of the Pfaffian to be expanded. The second is a list of the elements of the Pfaffian. As an illustration, one would evaluate the Pfaffian | A B C | | D E | F | as : PFAFFIAN(3,[A,B,C,D,E,F]); Another example: | A B C D E | F G H I | J K L | is PFAFFIAN(5,[A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L]); M N | O | In order to speed the evaluation, a hashed array called PFAFFM is created and added to from time to time, whenever a PFAFFIAN of a new and higher order is evaluated. This array contains infor- mation used by the function PFAFFIAN and is of no interest to the user. KILLing it will slow the evaluations, but will not other- wise affect the results. Modifying the array PFAFFM will lead to errors. Some error-checking is done by PFAFFIAN. If the length of the list argument is not equal to (N+1)*N/2, or if the integer argument is not a positive integer, or if the second argument is not a list, an error is detected and both arguments are put into a list, to which ERREXP is then bound. The demo file is PFAFF DEMO. Written by ASB