A slow summation
"Alasdair McAndrew" <[email protected]>
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Wondering about nice little numeric exercises to help introduce Axiom to a small group of students, I attempted to sum the first 20000 reciprocals: reduce(+,[1.0/i for i in 1...20000]) This works, but is (I think) unreasonably slow; it takes over 21 seconds on my computer. The equivalent command in Maxima takes less than 1 second. Is there any way of encouraging Axiom to be faster here? Thanks, Alasdair _______________________________________________ Axiom-mail mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-mail