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- From: tiok_ks@tac.fi
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: POWER OF LARGE NUMBERS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.140602.1509@tac.fi>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 11:06:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.135106.12924@cs.uow.edu.au> <thompson.714156001@daphne.socsci.umn.edu>
- Organization: City of Tampere
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- In article <thompson.714156001@daphne.socsci.umn.edu>
- thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson) writes:
-
- > Alright! Who volunteers for 7 ^ (7 ^ 7)?
- > ...
- > 10 ^ (10 ^ 10) ?
- >
- > P.S. Mathematica 2.1 on a Sparc 2 does 6 ^ (6 ^ 6) in 5.02 CPU seconds.
-
- OK, I can do the latter one - after all, it's greater:
-
- 1E+10 000 000 000
-
- It took about 4 seconds of my personal CPU, but my
- hands are slow, so it took about 10 secs of I/O time.
- But after all, that's an exact number... ;-)
-
- Now, who's going to calculate the smaller ones, like
- 7 ^ (7 ^ 7) ?
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- Kimmo Surakka tiok_ks@tac.fi
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