Re: Re: Student v. Full version of Mathematica
- Subject: [mg3299] Re: [mg3253] Re: Student v. Full version of Mathematica
- From: richard at seuss.math.wright.edu (Richard Mercer)
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 10:12:33 -0600
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> > To our surprise, in general the student version of > Mathematica executed at about 80% of the speed of the > full version. We found no case where the student version > was worse than 50% of the speed of the full version, and > a couple of cases were they were close to identical. > > Sadly, a research group doesn't qualify for the student > discount. Also, I believe the student version doesn't > qualify for the MathPlus upgrade program. But I recommend > it to my students, some of whom make very computationally > demanding usage of it. The student version has always been complete, and in the past varied from the professional version only in that it did not use a numeric coprocessor. In many situations this has little or no effect. I do not know how it varies in the case of newer processors such as the Motorola PowerPC chips or the Pentium chips, but it may be functionally identical. The student represents a very good deal for students, but I hope that everyone realizes that WRI could not afford to extend this offer to non-students. Richard Mercer