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Article #2670Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Robert Salasidis
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 02:40
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 02:40
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Robert Barris wrote: > Mathematica is almost entirely integer based, especially when it comes to > symbolic work and arbitrary precision math as in the factorial example > above. > In the preceeding example using a Sin, I would find it hard to believe that no floating point was used. I know that mathematica does make some use of floating point since I remember their adds that charging an extra 500-1000$ for a version that supported the 80387 coprocessor in the 386 days. Is Mathematica offered in a 32 bit vs 16 bit version (My reseller catalogs from Ingram Micro and Merisel don't distribute Wolfram Research products so I have no idea) ? If so I would like to know which version was tested.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mcgill.ca!news From: Robert Salasidis <salasidis@medcor.mcgill.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 21:40:37 -0500 Organization: Salasoft Inc. Message-ID: <30F1D5A5.637A@medcor.mcgill.ca> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do> <4bvd1r$qn3@sloth.swcp.com> <karl-0801961004470001@fampm201.tu-graz.ac.at> <30F193AD.4733@medcor.mcgill.ca> <rbarrisDKvyL7.Cvq@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: f-09.das.mcgill.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Win95; I)