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Baffling increase in runtime
Background of my question
I discovered Project Euler today, and decided I would work through the problems in Mathematica. I became obsessed with the first problem, which is essentially "sum all the ...
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Graphing the amount of time a function takes
I know I can find out the amount of time a function takes to run like this:
In:= function1[100] //Timing
Out:= {0.043334, Null}
How can I graph this over a set ...
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Efficient Generation of Random Variates from a Copula Distribution
I have a 7-asset portfolio for which I want to simulate daily log-deltas using a Student T copula. The marginal distributions are all either Stable or TsallisQGaussian. Using NMaximize, I have ...
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Precise Timing for nested functions, how to? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Profiling from Mathematica
How can I easily get fractions of timing for each nested function?
Consider a nested call like this:
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Timing differences between multiple executions of identical code
I have a
list of pairs of numbers and I'd like to change the sign of the second element in each pair i.e. $(a,b)\rightarrow (a,-b)$.
I'm sure there are many ...
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Simple countdown timer in Mathematica
I dug around a bit and did not find a simple and clear implementation of countdown stopwatch in Mathematica. I am looking for a function that takes as an input a certain integer and then counts down ...
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Intermediate display similar to PrintTemporary
Using MMA we often come across situations like the following
cityLIST = CityData[#, "Name"] & /@ CityData[];
This code if you evaluate will emit some display ...
