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Robert Salasidis <salasidis@medcor.mcgill.ca> writes:

>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.

It was a weighted test... I'm not entirely sure that it had much us either. 
Anyone have a very large spread sheet or mathmatica program?

>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.

He was comparing a Pentium to a 604 right?  I doubt it wuold make much 
difference.  The 604 is for most practical purposes a P6.  It benches a little
slower and is clocked a little slower but most if not all of the application
tests I've seen put it a little above the P6.  It will almost always out do a
Pentium.