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I'm working on my Home Work Problem, it took more than 9 weeks still I'm not able to solve. There are many errors, can anyone help me on this please and most important thing is I'M NEW TO MATLAB.
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Star Strider
on 8 May 2014
There must be hundreds of lines of code here.
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Star Strider
on 8 May 2014
‘Preallocating for speed’ means creating a matrix of zeros before you calculate the elements of the matrix in a loop. The reason is that MATLAB can then simply fill the preallocated matrix in the loop, and not have to create memory space for each element as it is created. The ‘preallocating for speed’ isn’t an error, but a (quite valuable) suggestion.
For example without preallocating:
tic
for k1 = 1:500
for k2 = 1:500
A(k1, k2) = k1.^(k2/100);
end
end
toc
Elapsed time is 0.142800 seconds.
Preallocating:
A = zeros(500,500);
tic
for k1 = 1:500
for k2 = 1:500
A(k1, k2) = k1.^(k2/100);
end
end
toc
Elapsed time is 0.063392 seconds.
Even including the preallocation step in the time interval: Elapsed time is 0.066296 seconds.
So preallocating definitely saves time.
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