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Old   June 24, 2006, 22:56
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Tks for your suggestion Tom, but what if i need to multiply by 2 for some values of i, but 10 for some other values. it's something like this:

integer multi(10) for i=1,2,7,9, multi(i)=1

do j=1,10 do i=1,10 if (multi(i)=1) then

a(i,j)=2*i*j else

a(i,j)=10*i*j end do end do

of cos, values of i/j are very small. but in reality, i,j can be 100 or 1000. in this case, will changing the innner loop to a(i,j)=(1-multi(i))*10*i*j + multi(i)*2*i*j be better?

i can't think of a better way.

for others a(i,j)=10*i*j. Normally, i would use a logical variable multi(10), where multi(1)=.true. for the 1st case, .false. for 2nd case.

Here's just an example, but in
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Old   June 25, 2006, 10:40
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I would have thought that holding the coefficients 2 and 10 in the multi() array and simply using

DO i=1,10 DO j=1,10

a(i,j)=multi(i)*i*j END DO END DO

would be better as it avoids the branch statements of your first bit if code and avoids the extra arithmetic of your second bit of code.
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Old   June 25, 2006, 15:12
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Now that you've gone this far in simplifying you can go one step further and actually assign multi(i) = c*i, where c is your conditional constant (2, 10, etc.). This is an O(N) process. Now you can write the code as

Do j=1,10; Do i=1,10; a(i,j)=multi(i)*j; enddo; enddo

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Old   June 25, 2006, 16:19
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and the multiplication can be eliminate completely with

a(:,1)=multi(

DO j=2,10 a(:,j)=a(:,j-1)+multi( END DO
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