Re: Re: Mathematica v5 versus v6
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- Subject: [mg80117] Re: [mg80075] Re: Mathematica v5 versus v6
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:28:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Just what would "dense" mean in the case of an 8 x 8 matrix, which is
the case raised?
Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote:
> Jon wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have found that there are some simple problems which can be done quickly in v5 but the new v6 seemingly cannot.
>>
>> For example I am presently doing some work which requires the calculation of the Rank of an 8 by 8 matrix. Using my notebook, 1Gb RAM and 1.73GHz with v5.1, I get the answer in a few seconds. When I installed v6 and ran the same nb file I never got an answer even after running for 1 hour.
>>
>> Is there a bug in v6?
>>
>> If others are also running v6 I would be interested in getting in touch to see if other users have the same experience. If you are running on a 64 bit machine I would really like to see if that solves the problem and can give an answer with v6.
>>
>> Any comments are very welcome!
>
> More input is needed. We can assume that you are using dense matrices,
> but what about the precision of their entries? Do you use exact
> arithmetic, arbitrary precision, or machine precision? Do you use
> built-in function or some code of your own? Can you provide an example?
>
> On my Wintel system (Pentium 4HT 2.6 MHz, 1 Go physical RAM), the
> built-in function *MatrixRank* is fast enough to compute the rank of a
> random 100 by 100 matrix in a second or so for machine-precision entries
> on both versions. For matrices with infinite-precision entries,
> Mathematica 6 improves the performances by a factor of two or so.
>
> In[1]:=
> $HistoryLength = 0;
> $Version
>
> Out[2]=
> 5.2 for Microsoft Windows (June 20, 2005)
>
> In[3]:=
> m = Table[Random[Real, {$MinMachineNumber, $MaxMachineNumber}], {100},
> {100}];
> Timing[MatrixRank[m]]
>
> Out[4]=
> {0.907 Second,100}
>
> In[5]:=
> m = Table[Random[Integer, {-10000, 10000}], {100}, {100}];
> Timing[MatrixRank[m]]
>
> Out[6]=
> {2.047 Second,100}
>
> In[7]:= $HistoryLength = 0;
> $Version
>
> Out[8]= "6.0 for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) (June 19, 2007)"
>
> In[9]:= m =
> RandomReal[{$MinMachineNumber, $MaxMachineNumber}, {100, 100}];
> Timing[MatrixRank[m]]
>
> Out[10]= {1.094, 100}
>
> In[11]:= m = RandomInteger[{-10000, 10000}, {100, 100}];
> Timing[MatrixRank[m]]
>
> Out[12]= {1.187, 100}
>
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- Re: Mathematica v5 versus v6
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet@gmail.com>
- Re: Mathematica v5 versus v6