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Space-efficient null space of sparse array

I have a roughly 100,000 × 3,000 matrix (as a SparseArray) that I'd like to find the kernel (null space) of. It has about 500,000 nonzero entries, all -1 or 1. ...
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1answer
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Finding long strings of identical digits in transcendental numbers

Introduction Describing the three main streams of present-day mathematical philosophy (formalism, Platonism and intuitionism) in a well-known book, The Emperor's New Mind, R. Penrose says: ...it ...
10
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2answers
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Memory leak in FE?

A very abridged example of what was originally a major leak ...
8
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1answer
151 views

Reducing the memory footprint of lists of machine numbers

I have a large 1D dataset of double precision numbers that are stored in many external database files. In order to load the whole dataset into Mathematica 8 I iterate over the files ...
8
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1answer
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GeoDirection and GeoDistance Memory Leaks: How to Recover the Memory?

The functions GeoDirection and GeoDistance have memory leaks. To see this, run the example functions below and watch as the Physical Memory Available in the Windows Task Manager, Performance tab, ...
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Working with large data, pass-by-reference, compiled functions

I think I know the answer to this, but after two days of Googling, this is my last effort before going down an unwanted path... I have a function that takes lots of large data as arguments as well as ...