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Re: How to speed up this calculation?

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  • Subject: [mg37211] Re: How to speed up this calculation?
  • From: "Steve Luttrell" <luttrell at _removemefirst_westmal.demon.co.uk>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:08:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Cases[pairs, _?(#[[1]] != #[[2]] &)] does what you want.

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Steve Luttrell
West Malvern, UK

"Cheng Liu" <cliu at lanl.gov> wrote in message
news:aokc15$agm$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Dear group,
>
>          I have the following question regarding a lengthy calculation
> using Mathematica:
>
> For given w points in x direction and h points in y direction, I can
> construct all the points using
>
>          h=10; w=8;
>          points=Flatten[Transpose[Outer[List,Range[w],Range[h]]],1]
>
> Next, I need to find all the possible pairs of point including points
> themselves, i.e., pair AA.  I can use
>
>          pairs=Outer[List,points,points,1]
>
> Then, I have to clear those pairs that repeat themselves, i.e., pair AB
and
> pair BA.  Also, when w and h are of the order of 1000s, the computation
> takes a very long time.  Is there a better way of doing the second part of
> the computation?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Cheng
>
>
> ====================================================
> Cheng Liu, Ph.D.
> MST-8, Structure/Property Relations
> Materials Science and Technology Division
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
>
> Phone: 505-665-6892 (office), 505-667-9950 (lab)
> Fax:   505-667-8021
> email: cliu at lanl.gov
> ====================================================
>
>




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