dear Matthew, the idea is to see what a 64 bit machine can do running 64 bit programs, (and the next step will be 128 bit machine running 128 bit programs one presumes). Then dual quads, lots and lots of fast GB RAM: progress.
good benchmarks would be the Euler-Mascheroni series, or the old series of 1/x^1.001, and such, the awfully slow converging things, a test of language, programmer, and machine. aside from that, people set records for number of digits, and they always have since before Euler and Mascheroni's time, and they always will. thanks dick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
