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Re: Convert Matrix to Sparse Matrix

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  • Subject: [mg119079] Re: Convert Matrix to Sparse Matrix
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 06:48:06 -0400 (EDT)

On 5/20/11 at 6:35 AM, dominic.woerner at mpi-hd.mpg.de (Dominic W=C3=B6rner)
wrote:


>I have big matrices with many zero elements. Calculating with them
>is very slow and I thought I could speed up the computations by
>converting them into sparse arrays. Is there function that does what
>I'm looking for?

Yes, the function is SparseArray. Look up details in the
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