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- From: peter@beast.math.ualberta.ca (Peter Karbaliotis)
- Subject: Re: mma big bad bug
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.173457.24631@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- References: <1993Jan5.161908.29218@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:34:57 GMT
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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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- 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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