On Apr 19, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:04 PM Tuesday 4/19/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? >> group_id=5083&package_id=9297>
I DLed the .jar, the first on the list, 0.8pre2. And when I entered 900! and clicked the "Symbolic evaluation" button I got a damn big number,
67526802209645841583879061361800814224269427869589384312198268703685091 6431804
[...]
00000000, perhaps?
Or thereabouts, yeah, though I don't feel too inclined to do a digit-for-digit check...
I tried 5,565,709! as well, and the program didn't die, but it set up a wait cursor that tells me nothing at all about how long it would take to do the calculation. After about an hour I shut it down and went on to other things. Java's convenient but its VM can really suck up the silicon, especially when all you have is a 600 MHz G3. :\
As I said, Mathematica running on this 3GHz processor took overnight to come up with 1,000,000! (Admittedly I was doing e-mail and some other things which were more IO-intensive than CPU-intensive while it was running.) You may find yourself in the place I was on that old IBM 1130 that I struggled to get to do 2500! when I was trying something else and figured based on the preliminary runs that the finished program would take on the order of two months to run . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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