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<div><h1>cpuTime -- seconds of cpu time used since Macaulay2 began</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>cpuTime()</tt></div>
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<li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___R__R.html">real number</a></span>, the number of seconds of cpu time used since the program was started</span></li>
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<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : t1 = cpuTime()
o1 = .634012
o1 : RR (of precision 27)</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : for i from 0 to 1000000 do 223131321321*324234324324;</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : t2 = cpuTime()
o3 = 1.114939
o3 : RR (of precision 27)</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : t2-t1
o4 = .48092701
o4 : RR (of precision 27)</pre>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="_time.html" title="time a computation">time</a> -- time a computation</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_timing.html" title="time a computation">timing</a> -- time a computation</span></li>
<li><span><a href="_current__Time.html" title="get the current time">currentTime</a> -- get the current time</span></li>
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