Why does %timeit loop different number of times?

Question

On Jupter Notebook, i was trying to compare time taken between the two methods for finding the index with max value.

In the Image, the first function took, 1000

Answer 1

use -r to limit the number of run's:

import time
%timeit -r1 time.sleep(2)
# 2 s ± 0 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 1 run, 1 loop each)

%timeit -r4 time.sleep(2)
# 2 s ± 800 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 4 runs, 1 loop each)

%timeit time.sleep(2)
# 2 s ± 46.5 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)