From: "Mike Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I'm not sure where the bottleneck in PARI is since I can't imagine
> Mathematica uses a different method to compute the number of
> partitions.

I don't know what is used in the latest Mathematica version, but originally 
NumberOfPartitions function in the Combinatorica package used the recursion 
with pentagonal numbers, see

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~sriram/Combinatorica/NewCombinatorica.m

Alec 


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