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In article <30F1D5A5.637A@medcor.mcgill.ca>, Robert Salasidis
<salasidis@medcor.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> 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.

Go check http://smc.vnet.net/mathbench.htmlf for a large number of MMA
benchmarks on various computers. I would be very pleased to see someone
add some numbers to the list for P6. The fact that none are there speaks
very clearly about the true "availability" of those machines.