Hi all

Can anyone suggest ways of speeding up this code ?

div_vec := proc(a::Vector,b::Vector)
  # procedure returns the element-byelement
  # division of vector a by vector b
  local i,c:
  c:=Vector(Dimension(a)):
  for i from 1 to Dimension(a) do
    c[i]:= a[i]/b[i]:
  end do:
  return c:
end proc:

Thanks

LR

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