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- From: hook@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Edward C. Hook)
- Subject: Re: mma big bad bug
- References: <15326.2b48512a@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 16:19:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.161908.29218@nas.nasa.gov>
- Summary: Another data point
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- 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:
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- 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 --
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- In[1]:= Pi*Sqrt[Pi]/(2*3*Sqrt[2])
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- $IterationLimit::itlim: Iteration limit of 4096 exceeded.
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- 3
- Pi
- Sqrt[---]
- 8
- Out[1]= Hold[---------]
- 3
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- In[2]:= Quit
- wilbur.hook: 102> exit
- wilbur.hook: 103>
- script done on Tue Jan 5 08:10:16 1993
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- Ed Hook
- hook@nas.nasa.gov
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