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diff --git a/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_user.rst b/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_user.rst index bc9fe513..e8b4f25e 100644 --- a/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_user.rst +++ b/src/python/doc/alpha_complex_user.rst @@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ Remarks equivalent to the `Čech complex <https://gudhi.inria.fr/doc/latest/group__cech__complex.html>`_ and much smaller if you do not bound the radii. `Čech complex <https://gudhi.inria.fr/doc/latest/group__cech__complex.html>`_ can still make sense in higher dimension precisely because you can bound the radii. -* Using the default :code:`complexity = 'safe'` makes the construction safe. - If you pass :code:`complexity = 'exact'` to :func:`~gudhi.AlphaComplex.__init__`, the filtration values are the exact +* Using the default :code:`precision = 'safe'` makes the construction safe. + If you pass :code:`precision = 'exact'` to :func:`~gudhi.AlphaComplex.__init__`, the filtration values are the exact ones converted to float. This can be very slow. - If you pass :code:`complexity = 'safe'` (the default), the filtration values are only + If you pass :code:`precision = 'safe'` (the default), the filtration values are only guaranteed to have a small multiplicative error compared to the exact value. A drawback, when computing persistence, is that an empty exact interval [10^12,10^12] may become a non-empty approximate interval [10^12,10^12+10^6]. - Using :code:`complexity = 'fast'` makes the computations slightly faster, and the combinatorics are still exact, but + Using :code:`precision = 'fast'` makes the computations slightly faster, and the combinatorics are still exact, but the computation of filtration values can exceptionally be arbitrarily bad. In all cases, we still guarantee that the output is a valid filtration (faces have a filtration value no larger than their cofaces). * For performances reasons, it is advised to use Alpha_complex with `CGAL <installation.html#cgal>`_ :math:`\geq` 5.0.0. |