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Re: mma big bad bug

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From: Peter Karbaliotis
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:34
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In article <1993Jan5.161908.29218@nas.nasa.gov> hook@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov  
(Edward C. Hook) writes:
>In article <15326.2b48512a@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>  
vandesande@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>>
>>Here is a bizzarre mma bug.  Try entering:
>>
>>Pi*Sqrt[Pi]/(2*3*Sqrt[2])
>>
>>This is very bad.  If anyone knows what is going on,
>>I would like to hear from them.
>>
>>Brett
>
>For what it's worth, here's what happens on one of our big SGI machines:
>
>Script started on Tue Jan  5 08:07:35 1993
>wilbur.hook: 101> math
>Mathematica 2.0 for SGI Iris
>Copyright 1988-91 Wolfram Research, Inc.
> -- X11 windows graphics initialized -- 
>
>In[1]:= Pi*Sqrt[Pi]/(2*3*Sqrt[2])
>
>$IterationLimit::itlim: Iteration limit of 4096 exceeded.
>
>                    3
>                  Pi
>             Sqrt[---]
>                   8
>Out[1]= Hold[---------]
>                 3
>

Ditto on my NeXTstation running NeXTSTEP 3.0 and Mma 2.1

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