Method meep_time

python/simulation.py:2618–2632

Return the current simulation time in simulation time units (e.g. during a run function). This is not the wall-clock time. Occasionally, e.g. for termination conditions of the form $time < T?$, it is desirable to round the time to single precision in order to avoid

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    def meep_time(self):
        """
        Return the current simulation time in simulation time units (e.g. during a run
        function). This is not the wall-clock time.

        Occasionally, e.g. for termination conditions of the form $time < T?$, it is
        desirable to round the time to single precision in order to avoid small
        differences in roundoff error from making your results different by one timestep
        from machine to machine (a difference much bigger than roundoff error); in this
        case you can call `Simulation.round_time()` instead, which returns the time
        rounded to single precision.
        """
        if self.fields is None:
            self.init_sim()
        return self.fields.time()

    def timestep(self) -> int:
        """Return the number of elapsed timesteps."""