On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Theo Belaire
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a large computation where I need to compute the number of positive 
> eigenvalues of a matrix.
> I am currently computing all the eigenvalues then counting how many are 
> positive, but I see when profiling that "{method 'roots' of 
> 'sage.rings.polynomial.polynomial_element.Polynomial' objects}" is taking up 
> most of the time.
> Any way to just get sign?
> Or to use estimates to speed up most of the computation, and I can recompute 
> any that have more than 1 positive eigenvalues exactly.  I'd really like to 
> avoid any false negatives though.
>

Can you somehow give an example of the sort of polynomials you're considering?

What's the base field?  RR, RealField(100), RDF, CDF, etc.?

For example:

R.<x> = RR['x']
f = x^50 + 7*x + 5
%timeit f.roots()
5 loops, best of 3: 97.6 ms per loop

versus

R.<x> = RDF['x']
f = x^50 + 7*x + 5
%timeit f.roots()
125 loops, best of 3: 5.74 ms per loop

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