Task: Gaussian elimination
Go: package main

import (
    "errors"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "math"
)

type testCase struct {
    a [][]float64
    b []float64
    x []float64
}

var tc = testCase{
    
    
    
    a: [][]float64{
        {1.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00},
        {1.00, 0.63, 0.39, 0.25, 0.16, 0.10},
        {1.00, 1.26, 1.58, 1.98, 2.49, 3.13},
        {1.00, 1.88, 3.55, 6.70, 12.62, 23.80},
        {1.00, 2.51, 6.32, 15.88, 39.90, 100.28},
        {1.00, 3.14, 9.87, 31.01, 97.41, 306.02}},
    b: []float64{-0.01, 0.61, 0.91, 0.99, 0.60, 0.02},
    x: []float64{-0.01, 1.602790394502114, -1.6132030599055613,
        1.2454941213714368, -0.4909897195846576, 0.065760696175232},
}


const ε = 1e-13

func main() {
    x, err := GaussPartial(tc.a, tc.b)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Println(x)
    for i, xi := range x {
        if math.Abs(tc.x[i]-xi) > ε {
            log.Println("out of tolerance")
            log.Fatal("expected", tc.x)
        }
    }
}

func GaussPartial(a0 [][]float64, b0 []float64) ([]float64, error) {
    
    m := len(b0)
    a := make([][]float64, m)
    for i, ai := range a0 {
        row := make([]float64, m+1)
        copy(row, ai)
        row[m] = b0[i]
        a[i] = row
    }
    
    
    for k := range a {
        
        iMax := k
        max := math.Abs(a[k][k])
        for i := k + 1; i < m; i++ {
            if abs := math.Abs(a[i][k]); abs > max {
                iMax = i
                max = abs
            }
        }
        if a[iMax][k] == 0 {
            return nil, errors.New("singular")
        }
        
        a[k], a[iMax] = a[iMax], a[k]
        
        for i := k + 1; i < m; i++ {
            
            for j := k + 1; j <= m; j++ {
                a[i][j] -= a[k][j] * (a[i][k] / a[k][k])
            }
            
            a[i][k] = 0
        }
    }
    
    
    x := make([]float64, m)
    for i := m - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
        x[i] = a[i][m]
        for j := i + 1; j < m; j++ {
            x[i] -= a[i][j] * x[j]
        }
        x[i] /= a[i][i]
    }
    return x, nil
}

Python: 


import copy
from fractions import Fraction

def gauss(a, b):
    a = copy.deepcopy(a)
    b = copy.deepcopy(b)
    n = len(a)
    p = len(b[0])
    det = 1
    for i in range(n - 1):
        k = i
        for j in range(i + 1, n):
            if abs(a[j][i]) > abs(a[k][i]):
                k = j
        if k != i:
            a[i], a[k] = a[k], a[i]
            b[i], b[k] = b[k], b[i]
            det = -det
            
        for j in range(i + 1, n):
            t = a[j][i]/a[i][i]
            for k in range(i + 1, n):
                a[j][k] -= t*a[i][k]
            for k in range(p):
                b[j][k] -= t*b[i][k]
                
    for i in range(n - 1, -1, -1):
        for j in range(i + 1, n):
            t = a[i][j]
            for k in range(p):
                b[i][k] -= t*b[j][k]
        t = 1/a[i][i]
        det *= a[i][i]
        for j in range(p):
            b[i][j] *= t
    return det, b

def zeromat(p, q):
    return [[0]*q for i in range(p)]

def matmul(a, b):
    n, p = len(a), len(a[0])
    p1, q = len(b), len(b[0])
    if p != p1:
        raise ValueError("Incompatible dimensions")
    c = zeromat(n, q)
    for i in range(n):
        for j in range(q):
                c[i][j] = sum(a[i][k]*b[k][j] for k in range(p))
    return c


def mapmat(f, a):
    return [list(map(f, v)) for v in a]

def ratmat(a):
    return mapmat(Fraction, a)



a = [[2, 9, 4], [7, 5, 3], [6, 1, 8]]
b = [[1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 1]]
det, c = gauss(a, b)

det
-360.0

c
[[-0.10277777777777776, 0.18888888888888888, -0.019444444444444438],
[0.10555555555555554, 0.02222222222222223, -0.061111111111111116],
[0.0638888888888889, -0.14444444444444446, 0.14722222222222223]]


matmul(a, c)
[[1.0, 0.0, 0.0], [5.551115123125783e-17, 1.0, 0.0],
[1.1102230246251565e-16, -2.220446049250313e-16, 1.0]]



det, c = gauss(ratmat(a), ratmat(b))

det
Fraction(-360, 1)

c
[[Fraction(-37, 360), Fraction(17, 90), Fraction(-7, 360)],
[Fraction(19, 180), Fraction(1, 45), Fraction(-11, 180)],
[Fraction(23, 360), Fraction(-13, 90), Fraction(53, 360)]]

matmul(a, c)
[[Fraction(1, 1), Fraction(0, 1), Fraction(0, 1)],
[Fraction(0, 1), Fraction(1, 1), Fraction(0, 1)],
[Fraction(0, 1), Fraction(0, 1), Fraction(1, 1)]]