Re: Looping
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- Subject: [mg95896] Re: Looping
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:56:32 -0500 (EST)
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Jeff Albert wrote: > I have a program written in Mathematica that has been running now for about three days. How can I tell if it's in a loop? > The best approach is to start small, and work your way up to a big problem like that if necessary. Start by aborting the calculation and then start testing much smaller examples. Some Mathematica functions - such as Simplify or FullSymplify - seem to get stuck in this sort of way - if they do that, they will hang for ever. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
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