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Stored entries per row at each level, 400 unknowns and 1192 edges

One function in the amg library, called 8 times across 1 essay. Below: what it draws at its defaults, what it draws at every value an essay asks for, the 8 claims it put to the test while drawing them, and where it stands against the rule this site is named for.

At its defaults it draws stored entries per row at each level, 400 unknowns and 1192 edges. A rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.

hierarchy-cost is one function in lib/figures/amg.js — algebraic multigrid — a hierarchy with no grid behind it, and what it costs. Everything below came out of it during this build, at arguments taken from the essays rather than invented for this page. A figure here is the figure a reader meets in an essay, and if the generator changes, this page changes with it.

At its defaults

Drawn even though every essay passes arguments — which on this site is every essay, at 100% of placements since the standard pass. A default nothing exercises is a trap for the next essay to call this with none, and this is the page where a default that has drifted from the figures around it becomes visible.

Stored entries per row at each level, 400 unknowns and 1192 edgesA rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.01234567110¹10²levelstored entries per rowalgebraicgeometrictwo complexities, one hierarchygrid complexity3.1operator complexity18geometric, for comparison1.5a ring plus random chords — nothing is anywherelevel 6 is 100% dense

A rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.

extra: 2

The arguments are the ones A hierarchy with no grid behind it passes. A value nobody placed would be a picture no essay asked for and no claim was ever checked against.

Stored entries per row at each level, 400 unknowns and 1192 edgesA rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.01234567110¹10²levelstored entries per rowalgebraicgeometrictwo complexities, one hierarchygrid complexity3.1operator complexity18geometric, for comparison1.5a ring plus random chords — nothing is anywherelevel 6 is 100% dense

A rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.

extra: 1

The arguments are the ones A hierarchy with no grid behind it passes. A value nobody placed would be a picture no essay asked for and no claim was ever checked against.

Stored entries per row at each level, 400 unknowns and 794 edgesA rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.01234567110¹10²levelstored entries per rowalgebraicgeometrictwo complexities, one hierarchygrid complexity2.6operator complexity11geometric, for comparison1.5a ring plus random chords — nothing is anywherelevel 5 is 100% dense

A rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.

extra: 1.5

The arguments are the ones A hierarchy with no grid behind it passes. A value nobody placed would be a picture no essay asked for and no claim was ever checked against.

Stored entries per row at each level, 400 unknowns and 994 edgesA rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.01234567110¹10²levelstored entries per rowalgebraicgeometrictwo complexities, one hierarchygrid complexity2.8operator complexity14geometric, for comparison1.5a ring plus random chords — nothing is anywherelevel 5 is 100% dense

A rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.

extra: 2.5

The arguments are the ones A hierarchy with no grid behind it passes. A value nobody placed would be a picture no essay asked for and no claim was ever checked against.

Stored entries per row at each level, 400 unknowns and 1389 edgesA rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.01234567110¹10²levelstored entries per rowalgebraicgeometrictwo complexities, one hierarchygrid complexity3.1operator complexity19geometric, for comparison1.5a ring plus random chords — nothing is anywherelevel 5 is 100% dense

A rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.

extra: 3.5

The arguments are the ones A hierarchy with no grid behind it passes. A value nobody placed would be a picture no essay asked for and no claim was ever checked against.

Stored entries per row at each level, 400 unknowns and 1786 edgesA rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.0123456110¹10²levelstored entries per rowalgebraicgeometrictwo complexities, one hierarchygrid complexity3operator complexity18geometric, for comparison1.5a ring plus random chords — nothing is anywherelevel 4 is 100% dense

A rising curve of stored entries per row against level in the hierarchy, beside a flat one for a geometric hierarchy on a grid.

What it checked while drawing

Every figure above checked its own claims on the way to being drawn, and a claim that failed would have stopped the picture rather than shipped a wrong one. Those checks used to leave no trace at all: a passing one returned true and the only evidence the figure had checked anything was that nothing crashed. The list below is what they actually said, collected by running this generator with an observer installed — not a description of what it is believed to check.

8 distinct claims across 6 sets of arguments, grouped below by shape — because most of them are one sentence with a different number in it, and how many separate times that sentence was put to the test is the informative part.

a graph with between half and four extra chords a vertex

and has levels to cost

and on a dense one it does not

and the algebraic hierarchy stores more than a geometric one

on a sparse graph it converges quickly

some level is far denser than the matrix it came from

the grid size is one less than a power of two

the hierarchy converges on the problem it is being costed for

Against the rule

It draws a decomposition and prints its residual. It calls amgSolve, and every figure above carries the badge — which residualcheck verifies by looking for it in the emitted SVG rather than by finding the call that builds one. A badge that is constructed and then left out of the body is the failure that check exists for.

Across the library: the rule bites on 217 of 397 generators — 199 print a residual and 18 are exempt with a published reason; 180 factorise nothing. Read from lib/residual-rule.js, which is the same body the gate enforces from, and the gate's last check fails the build if this page and it disagree about any generator.

Where it is called

Changing this generator changes every figure on this list. That is what makes the list worth publishing rather than keeping in a check script.

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