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Article #2758Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Shimpei Yamashita
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 20:34
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 20:34
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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. But probably not with the sin operator. 64-bit doubles (or even 128-bit long doubles) give you nowhere near the 2500 decimal place accuracy demanded in the test. Of course, we can only speculate because Wolfram won't reveal their exact algorithms.... -- Shimpei Yamashita <http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~shimpei/index.html> WWW Curator, Stanford Symphony Orchestra <http://www.stanford.edu/group/sso/>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.Stanford.EDU!not-for-mail From: Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@voyager.stanford.edu> 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: 13 Jan 1996 12:34:52 -0800 Organization: Academy of St. Leland on the Farm Sender: shimpei@voyager.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <4d951c$3ig@apollo0.Stanford.EDU> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do> <30F193AD.4733@medcor.mcgill.ca> <rbarrisDKvyL7.Cvq@netcom.com> <30F1D5A5.637A@medcor.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: apollo0.stanford.edu