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Article #986Re: mma big bad bug
From: Peter Karbaliotis
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:34
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 -- Peter Karbaliotis - peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca - NeXTmail ok When a particle you don't even know gives you momentum, that's impulse.
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Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!news From: peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Peter Karbaliotis) Subject: Re: mma big bad bug Message-ID: <1993Jan5.173457.24631@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sender: news@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: beast.math.ualberta.ca Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada References: <1993Jan5.161908.29218@nas.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:34:57 GMT Lines: 39