Didier, I am sure you are right but I thought it best to deal with one matter at a time! From Rose's posting it looked as if she was just trying to count instances in a list, while Tuples is a much more complicated function.
John 2008/5/9 didier deshommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rose, > >> >> Second, it becomes pretty long went there are complex numbers in my >> Tuples (more than 30 secondes for 7 elements). > > This does take time, interestingly when the numbers are symbolic: > > {{{ > sage: f=range(6) > > sage: %time Tuples(f,1); > CPU times: user 0.00 s, sys: 0.00 s, total: 0.00 s > Wall time: 0.00 > > sage: u=[CC(CC.random_element(10)+i) for _ in range(5)] > > sage: %time Tuples(u,1); > CPU times: user 0.48 s, sys: 0.22 s, total: 0.70 s > Wall time: 7.12 > }}} > > So I'm guessing you're using symbolic numbers instead of complex > numbers. It's easy to get them wrong: > {{{ > sage: symbol=2+I ; type(symbol) > <class 'sage.calculus.calculus.SymbolicArithmetic'> > > sage: a=CC(2+I) ; type(a) > <type 'sage.rings.complex_number.ComplexNumber'> > }}} > > Hope that helps > > didier >> >> I would like to know if there is a better way to count a Tuples of >> complex number. >> >> In general, it is really long when I utilize Tuples with complex >> number (in comparaison of doing 2 Tuples, one for real part and one >> for imaginary part). >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---