Hi,
At 11:46 AM 3/2/99 -0500, George Strohschein wrote:
>I tried to get Mathematica 3.0 to calculate that 37th prime, but gave up on
>my old 60 MHz P5 (Gateway) after about half a day. I then tried it on a 200
>Mhz CPU, but gave up again after about 6 hours. Can someone send me the
>number so I can also print it out in 2 point font and see how big it really
>is?
Get Mikko Tommila's program from http://www.hut.fi/~mtommila/apfloat/
I'll bet your old P-60 can compute M#37 in less than a minute. Mikko
proves once again the importance of using a good algorithm.
Hope that helps,
George
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