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Tr vs Total

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  • Subject: [mg49346] Tr vs Total
  • From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves at umich.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
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Tr seems to have a problem with big lists.  Anyone know why the following 
2 expressions don't yield the same result?

Tr[Table[8000000, {269}]]

Total[Table[8000000, {269}]]

(they do if you make either of those constants smaller)


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