I have a variety of picture processing programs that I can work with. And for this particular application Windows Paint just turned out to be the easiest one to use.

My forecasting computer programs create large numbers of extremely large arrays. And they are the memory hogs. The more data that can be stored in memory, the more powerful and versatile the program is.

The program has been taught to do its probability calculations and then store the data on a disk for later use. So, it would normally take perhaps two hours to update the more than ten years of EM Signal data that it can presently access. If it had to start from scratch without that previously stored data I expect that it might take a day and a half of continuous CPU time to do all the necessary calculations. These are complex probability equations that probably require many millions of computations to process a single EM Signal. There are presently about 3500 EM Signal records that the program has to work with. And starting from scratch it takes 30 seconds to process a single signal and then another half hour to process the data for each chart for the years 2001 to 2011.