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Re: Pattern matching "on the fly"

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  • Subject: [mg30232] Re: Pattern matching "on the fly"
  • From: "Stephen P Luttrell" <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:56:02 -0400 (EDT)
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"Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Tony,
> Not a general solution, but for your example we get
>
>
> (1+x)^1000000 +O[x]^3//Normal//Timing
>
> {0.27*Second, 1 + 1000000*x + 499999500000*x^2}


and I got this result using Mathematica 4.1 (Windows NT 4):

(1+x)^1000000 +O[x]^3//Normal//Timing

{0.Second, 1 + 1000000000000000000000 x +
      499999999999999999999500000000000000000000 x^2}


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