On Wednesday 14 December 2011, Volker Braun wrote: > On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:18:58 AM UTC, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > It uses the "Student-t" method to estimate the certainty > > This is precisely what the python documentation warns about (see Nils' > post). The timings are not normal distributed. Especially if your code is > deterministic its much more sensible to look at the min than to unleash > normal distribution theory.
I should mention that we do test random matrices and that some of our algorithms depend on the input (e.g., they are rank sensitive). So perhaps at least for some tests we run, it makes a bit of sense? But we should at least also output the minimum as well I guess. Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
