How to Measure Code Execution Time & Find LDU Factorization of Matrix A

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Alright I have to questions one is on how to measure the time it takes for my computer to solve a particular code I've tried the the "tic toc" and that seems to be dependent on the time frame that I typed in tic and toc. I need something that Is only dependent on the time taken to process and solve the command.
Second how do I find the LDU factorization of a matrix A? I saw LU and LDL but that was it
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sorry one more question I need to solve for x in Ax=b with A =rand 100*100 matrix and B=rand100*1 what's the quickest way to do so?
 
99% of the questions asked in this forum about Matlab are already answered in the Matlab documentation. Indeed, not only do the Matlab docs answer your questions, they answer them more accurately, completely, and concisely than anyone here could.

scsig805 said:
Alright I have to questions one is on how to measure the time it takes for my computer to solve a particular code I've tried the the "tic toc" and that seems to be dependent on the time frame that I typed in tic and toc. I need something that Is only dependent on the time taken to process and solve the command.

Try this:

Code: 
doc cputime


scsig805 said:
Second how do I find the LDU factorization of a matrix A? I saw LU and LDL but that was it

Matlab already has LU factorization, so it's easy to transform to LDU factorization. Any textbook on linear algebra will show you how to do this. In case you've forgotten, you can extract the diagonal from a matrix [itex]A[/itex] using the diag command. In Matlab, to look at LDU of a matrix A we would use

Code: 
D = diag(diag(A));
LDUA = inv(D) * A;

LDUA is what you're looking for. Again, see any textbook on linear algebra for the details on this if you're feeling a bit rusty.

scsig805 said:
sorry one more question I need to solve for x in Ax=b with A =rand 100*100 matrix and B=rand100*1 what's the quickest way to do so?

Try looking at the Matlab documentation under Matlab -> Mathematics -> Linear Algebra -> Systems of linear equations for a step-by-step guide, including a discussion of efficiency.