RE: A Recreational Endeavour
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- Subject: [mg8764] RE: [mg8692] A Recreational Endeavour
- From: Ersek_Ted%PAX1A at mr.nawcad.navy.mil
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 20:51:07 -0400
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It looks like you have a copy of the Mathematica Book.
That is very important.
A very good move to make the next step is to get a copy of
Power Programming with Mathematica the Kernal.
by: David B. Wagner
A signifigant part of this book covers
"Programming for Performance".
In this section he covers a lot of important lessons that many other authors
do not discuss. He also covers a lot of other very good information.
Ted
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|From: "haha"@astral.magic.ca at PMDF@PAXMB1
|To: ersek ted; "mathgroup"@smc.vnet.net at PMDF@PAXMB1
|Subject: [mg8764] [mg8692] A Recreational Endeavour
|Date: Friday, September 19, 1997 4:25AM
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|I am an amateur in both Mathematica and mathematics. Consider the following
|bit of (likely) very inefficient code:
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|In[1]:=
|x={1};y={2,3,4};
|Do[x=Append[x,y[[n+1]]];
| y=Flatten[
| Append[Transpose[
| Reverse[ReplacePart[Partition[Delete[y,n+1],n],
| Reverse[First[Partition[Delete[y,n+1],n]]],1]]],{3*n+2,3*n+3,
| 3*n+4}]],{n,1,100}]
|x
|Out[2]=
|{1,3,5,4,10,7,15,8,20,9,18,24,31,14,28,22,42,35,33,46,53,6,36,23,2,55,62,59,
|
76,65,54,11,34,48,70,79,99,95,44,97,58,84,25,13,122,83,26,115,82,91,52,138,
|
67,90,71,119,64,37,81,39,169,88,108,141,38,16,146,41,21,175,158,165,86,191,
|
45,198,216,166,124,128,204,160,12,232,126,208,114,161,156,151,249,236,263,
| 243,101,121,72,120,47,229,178}
|
|The resulting set is a permutation of the positive Integers, with the
|caveat that it is not known (and, perhaps, not knowable) if *every* number
|eventually appears.
|
|I would like to generate x for values much greater than 100. Using
|Mathematica 3.0 on a Macintosh with some 50 MB assigned to the MathKernel,
|I can generate x with a Length of about 4400 before running out of memory.
|If there is some way to squeeze more data points out of my existing code, I
|would be pleased to hear of it.
|
|--
|Nature requires five,
|Custom allows seven,
|Idleness takes nine,
|And wickedness eleven.
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