Computed theoretical power for N=100 and N=200 scenarios

Modules/ado/plus/e/elapse.hlp

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+..-
+help for ^elapse^
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+
+Timing portions of a program
+- ----------------------------
+
+	^elapse^ start_time [name_of_operation]
+
+
+Where start_time is a previously defined macro equal to 
+the global system macro S_TIME at some earlier point, and 
+name_of_operation is a string.
+
+
+Description
+- -----------
+
+^Elapse^ displays a string with the name of the operation, 
+if specified, and the time elapsed between start_time and 
+current time.
+
+
+
+Options
+- -------
+
+name_of_operation is a user-defined string.
+
+
+Remarks
+- -------
+
+^Elapse^ automates the procedure of timing a piece of code 
+or an entire program.  It is accurate over midnight, but not 
+over several days.  It also creates a global S_elap, which is 
+a numerical macro of the form hhmmss, where hh is the number 
+of hours, mm the number of minutes, and ss the number of seconds.
+
+
+Examples
+- --------
+
+	^local st = "$S_TIME"^
+	^...^
+	^local oper "Maximum likelihood estimation"^
+	^elapse "`st'" "`oper'"^
+	- Maximum likelihood estimation took 7 minutes, 15 seconds.
+
+	^elapse `st'^
+	- Elapsed time was 1 hour, 10 minutes, 32 seconds.
+
+	^quietly elapse `st'^
+	^if $S_elap > 4500 { mat xx = startxx }^
+
+
+Saved Results
+- -------------
+
+S_elap (see above).
+
+
+Author
+- ------
+
+	Frederic Zimmerman
+	Food Research Institute
+	Stanford University