* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Fair enough. If you have both, and an overnight computer run to > spare, your solution is the best. I was thinking more of cost/benefit > for someone on a budget who had to pick something to buy.
I didn't have either on my computer when I got up this morning. I didn't have GiNaC, either. But overnight to calculate 5M digits sounded way too long to me. So I took a quick look for free software that could do it (about 3 min of reading), decided GiNaC looked good, and typed >apt-cache search ginac ginac-tools - Some tools for the GiNaC framework libginac-dev - The GiNaC framework (development files) libginac1.3 - The GiNaC framework (runtime library) >apt-get install libginac-dev and then I pasted the GiNaC equivalent of "hello, world" into my text editor, edited a couple lines, and ran it on 1 000 000! to start. In less than a minute I had the answer. Then I ran it on the requested number which took 8 minutes, and posted the results. Total expenditure: $0, and a few minutes of time (it actually took me longer to create the post summarizing the results than it did to install the software and calculate the results) On the other hand if 8 minutes is too quick for you and you'd rather wait several days for Mathematica to calculate 5M!, then that is of course the "best solution" if it makes you feel better about all the money you spent on Mathematica... -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
