thank you but the solution that you proposed seem to tell "abort if
the process is too long" and I would like to do something like "while
R_c is too long to factorized, do c:=c+1".
is it possible with @fork?

sorry if it is obvious ...

On 16 juil, 12:40, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/16/10 11:32 AM, William Stein wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, troublion<[email protected]>  
> > wrote:
> >> hello,
>
> >> within a procedure I need to factorize an integer R_c depending on a
> >> parameter c which I can change if I want. But this integer can be very
> >> big (like 170 digits or more...) so sage could not factorize it. I
> >> would like to say to sage something like "if you can, factorize it,
> >> else look at R_{c+1}".
> >> Is it possible? How?
> >> thank you very much in advance,
>
> > My new @fork decorator is perfect for this, which you get from
> >http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9501, or wait for sage-4.5.1
> > (in 2-3 weeks).
>
> > Code:
>
> > @fork(timeout=1)
> > def fac1(n):
> >      return factor(n)
>
> > Usage:
>
> > sage: fac1(2903482093840982)
> > 2 * 15907 * 26203 * 3482971
> > sage: fac1(2^97+1)
> > 3 * 971 * 1553 * 31817 * 1100876018364883721
> > sage: fac1(2^997+1)
> > Killing subprocess 94648 with input
> > ((1339385758982834151185531311325002263201756014631917009304687985462938813 
> > 906170153116497973519619822659493341146941433531483931607115392554498072196 
> > 837321850491820971853028873177634325632796392734744272769130809372947742658 
> > 424845944895692993259632864321399559710817770957553728956578048354650708508 
> > 673,),
> > {}) which took too long
> > 'NO DATA (timed out)'
>
> Mathematica has two related to this
>
> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/TimeConstrained.htmlhttp://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/MemoryConstrained.html
>
> It might be useful if Sage could implement the latter too.
>
> Dave

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