Re: Need some help with monitoring evaluation
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- Subject: [mg96903] Re: Need some help with monitoring evaluation
- From: Dan629 <dangerrity at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:10:06 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 26, 5:01 am, congruentialumina... at yahoo.com wrote: > This has caused me some consternation in the past. By this I mean that > I make some coding error that causes Mathematica to loop. > > I would check out: > > ref/TimeConstrained > ref/Reap > ref/StepMonitor > > HTH. > > Roger Williams > Franklin Laboratory > On Feb 24, 2:46 am, dangerr... at gmail.com wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm trying to convolve a Rayleigh distribution with a circular > > distribution along the x dimension. It simplifies into a Gaussian > > convolved with an expression of the form 1/(pi*Sqrt[q^2-x^2]). > > <snipped/> Thank you for the references. * I have looked at StepMonitor, but it only applies to numerical evaluations and is not an option for a symbolic function like InverseFourierTransform. * Since I can't use StepMonitor, I can't see how to take advantage of Sow and Reap * I have also tried to useTimeConstrained, but the function simply returns $Aborted when the time limit is exhausted. * TracePrint and Trace dump too much output; I've tried to specify forms like _Simplify to reduce the output but Simplify isn't used until the end so it doesn't provide intermediate information. * Unless I can up with a meaningful pattern to use with TraceDialog, it's insane how many stops are involved. When I interrupt an evaluation, what can I examine?