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  • Subject: [mg262] Timing
  • From: "Stephen R. G. Jones" <sj at jsbach.economics.mcmaster.ca>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 13:45:10 -0500 (EST)

...
I would be interested in seeing the results of this simple test from 
other 
platforms such as the Sparc workstations and the Pentium-based PC.

Ed Boss
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
...

OK, results on an IBM RS/6000 Model 375 (64 Mb memory)

Mathematica 2.2 for IBM RISC System/6000
Copyright 1988-93 Wolfram Research, Inc.
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In[1]:= Timing[Inverse[Table[Random[],{100},{100}]];]
Out[1]= {0.66 Second, Null}
In[2]:= Timing[N[Pi,500];]
Out[2]= {0.04 Second, Null}
In[3]:= Timing[10000!][[1]]
Out[3]= 4.51 Second

Steve
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