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You can find an interactive Sage application here: http://shrek.unideb.hu/~tengely/Magyary/oktatas.html the last part is "Mátrixok n-edik hatványának zárt alakja", it is in Hungarian, but the mathematics and Sage command will help I think. In case of your example this code will not work, the eigenvalue 1 has multiplicity larger than 1. To make it work the computation related to the eigenvectors should be modified. At the above page the matrix is given by matrix([[1,2,1],[6,-1,0],[-1,-2,-1]]) and after pushing the "Számolás" button you see the general form of the $n$th power of this matrix.

You can find an interactive Sage application here: http://shrek.unideb.hu/~tengely/Magyary/oktatas.html the last part is "Mátrixok n-edik hatványának zárt alakja", it is in Hungarian, but the mathematics and Sage command will help I think. In case of your example this code will not work, the eigenvalue 1 has multiplicity larger than 1. To make it work the computation related to the eigenvectors should be modified. At the above page the matrix is given by matrix([[1,2,1],[6,-1,0],[-1,-2,-1]]) and after pushing the "Számolás" button you see the general form of the $n$th power of this matrix.matrix. If you have a diagonalizable matrix the above code should do the job.