I split the exponent into two pieces - the two partials differ by one in
their exponents: 7830457 = 3915228 + 3915229.
They are doing much of the same work.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Marshall Lochbaum <
[email protected]> wrote:

> How is the split-up calculation different (in terms of complexity) from
> 1+28433* (*+:) 2x^3915228
> ?
>
> It seems that the partial1 and partial2 computations are doing exactly the
> same job.
>
> Marshall
>
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> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Large numbers
>
> This took 0:46:37 in J and 0:53:28 in bc on my XP machine.  However, when I
> split the calculation into pieces, it was finished in less than 15 minutes.
>
> I ran the following two scripts simultaneously, using "fork" (which took
> about six minutes), then loaded the results and made the final calculation:
>   load&.>'partial1.ijs';'partial2.ijs'
> +++
> +++
>   6!:2 'ans0=. 1+28433*partial1*partial2'
> 518.91352
>   10{.":ans0
> 7772839072
>   #":ans0
> 2357207
>
> The results above were produced by these two scripts:
>
> NB.* large1.ijs: portion of large calculation.
> ans1=. 2x^3915228
> ('partial1=: ','x',~,":ans1) 1!:2 <'partial1.ijs'
> 2!:55''
>
> NB.* large2.ijs: portion of large calculation.
> ans2=. 2x^3915229
> ('partial2=: ','x',~,":ans2) 1!:2 <'partial2.ijs'
> 2!:55''
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Yes, that makes more sense to me, too, with a bit more thought.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Mine is:
> > >  1 + 28433 * 2 ^ 7830457x
> > >
> > >
> > >
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