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- From: wmcb@math.appstate.edu (Bill Bauldry)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: mma big bad bug
- Followup-To: sci.math.symbolic
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:42:21 GMT
- Organization: Appalachian State Univ, Math Sciences
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- Message-ID: <wmcb-060193124719@lynx.math.appstate.edu>
- References: <15326.2b48512a@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1993Jan5.153704.2319@mail.cornell.edu> <14073@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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-
- In article <14073@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, hnr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Harvey Rutt)
- wrote:
- >
- > In <1993Jan5.153704.2319@mail.cornell.edu> rz10@cornell.edu (Ray Zimmerman) writes:
- >
- > >In article <1993Jan5.145612.11165@Arco.COM> , jrowney@arco.com 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
- > >>>
- > >>
- > >>Quite bizarre -- Mathematica just seems to stop dead in its tracks!
- > >>
- > >>Mac IIfx, MMA 2.102
- >
- > >Hmmm, me too!
- > >Mac IIci, MMA 2.102
- >
- > Me too!! MMA2.0/Windows 3.1 486PC with 16MB
- > So its not machine dependant.
-
- Definitely not machine dependent! Here's a session from a Convex (courtesy
- of tga@math.appstate)
-
- In[2]:= Pi*Sqrt[Pi]/(2*3*Sqrt[2])
-
- Interrupt> **after one minute**
- ??
- Your options are:
- abort (or a) to abort current calculation
- continue (or c) to continue
- exit (or quit) to exit Mathematica
- inspect (or i) to enter an interactive dialog
- show (or s) to show current operation (and then continue)
- trace (or t) to show all operations
-
- Interrupt> a
-
-
- WARNING: disk quota (/cardinal/edu) exceeded
-
- DISK LIMIT REACHED (/cardinal/edu) - WRITE FAILED
- Bus error (core dumped)
-
- ---
- Just how much did it cost for this *upgrade* ?
-
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- When judging a mathematician you should only integrate f_+
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