Re: Special Matrix
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- Subject: [mg28345] Re: Special Matrix
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 02:18:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Washington
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Hi Allan,
I was thinking about your method a bit more, and came up with the
alternative PM3.
In[1]:=
PM1[n_]:=Block[{mat=Table[1,{n},{n}]},
mat[[{1,-1},All]]=0;
mat[[All,{1,-1}]]=0;
mat]
PM2[n_]:=PadLeft[Table[1,{n-2},{n-2}],{n,n},0,{1,1}]
PM3[n_]:=Block[{mat=IdentityMatrix[n]},
mat[[All,All]]=1;
mat[[{1,-1},All]]=0;
mat[[All,{1,-1}]]=0;
mat]
Basically, as I said before, the Table construct is quite slow. However,
instead of using PadLeft to construct the table of 1's as I described in my
last post, why not use your method to construct the table of 1's? So, that's
the change in PM3. The result is quite a bit faster, witness:
In[4]:=
Do[r1=PM1[1000],{10}]//Timing
Do[r2=PM2[1000],{10}]//Timing
Do[r3=PM3[1000],{10}]//Timing
r1===r2===r3
Out[4]=
{11.688 Second, Null}
Out[5]=
{13.421 Second, Null}
Out[6]=
{2.469 Second, Null}
Out[7]=
True
So, the fastest way (so far) to create a matrix of 1's is to create a dummy
matrix (IdentityMatrix[n]) and then to change all the entries to 1.
Carl Woll
Physics Dept
U of Washington
"Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9b0sso$rq at smc.vnet.net...
> Souvik,
> Here is another way
>
> PM1[n]:=
> Block[{mat=
Table[1,{n},{n}]},mat[[{1,-1},All]]=0;mat[[All,{1,-1}]]=0;mat]
>
> It seems to be slightly quicker than Carl Woll's (which itself appears to
be
> the fastest of the posting so far)
>
> PM2[n_]:=PadLeft[Table[1,{n-2},{n-2}],{n,n},0,{1,1}]
>
> n=2000;
>
> M1= PM1[n];//Timing
>
> {8.18 Second,Null}
>
> M2= PM2[n];//Timing
>
> {10.71 Second,Null}
>
> Check
>
> M1===M2
>
> True
>
> --
> Allan
> ---------------------
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> "Souvik Banerjee" <s-banerjee at nwu.edu> wrote in message
> news:9ajmap$s9e at smc.vnet.net...
> > Not sure if the shortest but it works:
> >
> > CreateMatrix[n_] :=
> > Block[{r,c,m},
> > Needs["LinearAlgebra`MatrixManipulation`"];
> > r = ZeroMatrix[1, n]; m = Table[1, {n - 2}, {n - 2}];
> > c = ZeroMatrix[n - 2, 1];
> > BlockMatrix[{{r}, {c, m, c}, {r}}]
> > ]
> >
> > The bottleneck seems to be the Table[] operations. If there is a built
in
> > function to create a matrix with a constant element then it will speed
> this
> > up.
> >
> > -Souvik
> >
> >
> > Yoram Pollack <syftech at saad.org.il> wrote in message
> > news:9ah5nq$ps0 at smc.vnet.net...
> > > Hello
> > > I am trying to create a "n x n" matrix with "1" in every position
exept
> in
> > > first and last row, and first and last coulumn, where "0" is needed.
In
> > > other words: sqare matrix full of "1" sorounded by "0".
> > > What will be the fastest and shortest way to do it?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Yoram
> > >
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