Re: distance function
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- Subject: [mg70095] Re: distance function
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 06:16:44 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Chris Chiasson wrote:
> 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]
Hi Chris,
Written in the following way, Compile does not complain anymore:
In[1]:=
pts[1] = Table[{Random[], Random[]}, {3}];
ccC = Compile[{{p, _Real, 1}, {q, _Real, 1}},
If[p == q, 0, (Sqrt[#1 . #1] & )[p - q]]];
Outer[ccC, pts[1], pts[1], 1]
Out[3]=
{{0.,1.00434,0.161348},{1.00434,0.,0.845952},{0.161348,0.845952,0.}}
This, of course, does not explain why in first instance Compile was
expecting a rank 1 vector. Using the optional argument of Compile to
tell Mathematica what is the return type of an external function does
not help either:
ccC = Compile[{{p, _Real, 1}, {q, _Real, 1}}, cc[p, q], {{cc, _Real, 0}}];
HTH,
Jean-Marc