Re: Optimized for 0*x ?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg6475] Re: [mg6461] Optimized for 0*x ?
- From: seanross at worldnet.att.net
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 13:23:05 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Mike Brewer wrote:
> If I execute an expression
> a * x
> where a is exactly 0, and x is anything (e.g. Exp[y^2]), does mathematica
> know not to evaluate x (which may require some processing)? The reason I
> want to know this is because I have a set of variables which become
> extremely small during the algorithm, and would like to save some processing
> time by using Chop to reduce them to 0 exactly.
In my experience, mathematica does not know to not process each element
of an expression. This is because 0 * Infinity will return the result
Indeterminate. I recommend you use a conditional such as:
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