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Re: Looping

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• Subject: [mg95896] Re: Looping
• From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:56:32 -0500 (EST)
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Jeff Albert wrote:
> I have a program written in Mathematica that has been running now for about three days.  How can I tell if it's in a loop?
> 
The best approach is to start small, and work your way up to a big 
problem like that if necessary. Start by aborting the calculation and 
then start testing much smaller examples.

Some Mathematica functions - such as Simplify or FullSymplify - seem to 
get stuck in this sort of way - if they do that, they will hang for ever.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk

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