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- From: jensting@ee.ic.ac.uk (Jens Tingleff)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: long symbolic runs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.142927.5257@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 13:29:27 GMT
- References: <JAFFER.92Aug29231912@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <JAFFER.92Aug29231912@camelot.ai.mit.edu>, jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer) writes:
- > Has anyone run SYMBOLIC mathematical compatuations which, using the
- > best commands for the job, took days to complete and yet produced
- > answers small enough to be useful?
- >
-
- Certainly. My most recent problem of that type was trying to get a first order
- approximation to the change in polynomial zero location when the polynomial
- coefficients changed values. I did it the stupid way, which is why it took
- something like 10 CPUhours for one polynomial and unsolved after 3 CPUDays for
- another polynomial. The end result is a neat expression, but some of the
- intermediate expressions (the symbolic zero values) has thousands of terms in
- them..
-
- Whether this falls under "used the best commands for the job" I don't know.
- I changed my formula after much digging into my old MSc thesis, I didn't
- use the stupiud algorithm by choice. Using the stupid algorithm was something I
- just had to go through ;-)
-
- > If this is a common occurence then it would seem to be a good
- > idea for symbolic math systems to dump their core images every few
- > hours so that large computations will not be lost. Do any systems
- > offer this feature?
-
- Yes it would be nice; no I don't know of any package that does this (I used
- Mathematica).
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- Mr Jens Tingleff, M.Sc.EE. PhD student at
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