Re: RE: Re: Re: distance function
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- Subject: [mg70071] Re: [mg70014] RE: [mg68805] Re: [mg68772] Re: distance function
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 00:33:38 -0400 (EDT)
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Could someone please explain why Mathematica seems to be expecting the
output of cc to be a vector?
pts[1]=Table[{Random[],Random[]},{3}];
cc[p_,p_]=0;
cc[p_,q_]:=cc[q,p]=Sqrt[#.#]&[p-q];
ccC=Compile[{{p,_Real,1},{q,_Real,1}},cc[p,q]];
Outer[ccC,pts[1],pts[1],1]
On 9/30/06, Coleman, Mark <Mark.Coleman at libertymutual.com> wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, I tested these two approaches on a number of data sets
> for which I make frequent use. For some reason Jens code is running
> slower! I've been testing it out some lists of reals of size
> n=500,1000,2500, and 5000. Is it possible that the time for the
> conditional compares is exceeding the computational time of redundant
> calculations? Could someone try this out?
>
> (note: I'm working on some code for identifying outliers in large data
> sets. The efficient calculation of L-1 and L-2 distance matrices are
> important.)
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg70071] [mg70014] [mg68805] Re: [mg68772] Re: distance function
>
> Yes, I KNOW that I'm computing the distances twice in my solution:
> that's why I said it's an "extravagant" solution!
>
> Jens-Peer Kuska wrote:
> > Hi Murray,
> >
> > at least you should compute the distances not twice because the matrix
>
> > is symmetric with zero diagonal ...
> >
> > d[{p_,p_}]:=0.0
> > d[{q_,p_}]/; OrderedQ[{q,p}]:=d[{q,p}]= Norm[p - q]
> > d[{q_,p_}]:=d[{p,q}]
> >
> > Regards
> > Jens
> >
> >
> > Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> >> If you don't mind an "extravagant" solution -- one that is
> >> conceptually simple and short but is probably inefficient due to
> >> redundant calculations -- then this works, I believe:
> >>
> >> d[{p_, q_}] := Norm[p - q]
> >> allDistances[pts_] := Union[Flatten[Outer[d, pts, pts]]]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> dimmechan at yahoo.com wrote:
> >>> In the book of Gaylord et al. (1996) there is one exercise which
> >>> asks (see page 113)
> >>>
> >>> "Given a list of points in the plane, write a function that finds
> >>> the set of all distances between the points."
> >>>
> >>> Although there is one solution, that solution makes use of the Table
>
> >>> and Length commands.
> >>>
> >>> Is it a way to define the same function using Higher-Order functions
>
> >>> like Outer, MapThread etc?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance for any help.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
>
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