Re: 480 Midterm

[William Stein]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Eddie Tsay <jian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Professor Stein,
>      I just had a couple questions regarding the midterm:
>     1) About timing our function. You mentioned in class that using timeit
> probably wasn't the way to go. Do you remember what it was you said in class
> regarding this issue? Specifically, I'm wondering if you mentioned anything
> about why we shouldn't use timeit and also if you mentioned another timing
> function we should use instead.

Using the cputime function. Or do

sage: time call_your_function()

>    2) For number 4, do we need to be connecting the points to one another to
> form a staircase?

That's up to you. Either way is fine by me.

William

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William Stein
Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
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[Colin Dilwoth]

would walltime() also be acceptable?

On May 15, 1:53 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:

[William Stein]

On Sunday, May 15, 2011, Colin Dilwoth <colind...@gmail.com> wrote:
> would walltime() also be acceptable?
>

Yes