Re: Re: Looping
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- Subject: [mg96006] Re: [mg95991] Re: Looping
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 04:40:00 -0500 (EST)
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And, in fact, I communicated privately with the poster who started this thread and I think the problem was simply in the entry of his expression. He used a Return before each term so instead of getting one expressions, he had multiple lines, each containing one term! After fixing that everything worked - instantaneously. So actually it had nothing to do with the innards of Simplify. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: David Bailey [mailto:dave at removedbailey.co.uk] Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > > > I doubt very much that they they ever get "stuck" in the way you > describe. Both Simplify and FullSimplify make use of algebraic > algorithms some of which have very high complexity (e.g. exponential > or even double exponential in the number of variables). > > > Andrzej Kozlowski > I was responding to a user who tells us he has left a calculation running for 3 days! He hadn't used TimeConstraint when he started the thing off, so it could not help him until he killed the process. I have certainly had Simplify and FullSimplify get 'stuck' - though I have never waited 3 days for a possible answer (and I am yet to encounter this problem with 7.0, but I have not tried)! In situations like this - which often spread over a lot of memory - the computer ends up swapping memory pages to/from disk, which slows the actual calculation to a crawl. I would have thought I replied with the obvious practical advice, and that the word 'stuck' is sufficiently vague and informal as not to require a paragraph of mathematical caveats! David