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Re: Tr vs Total

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• Subject: [mg49351] Re: [mg49346] Tr vs Total
• From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
• Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 06:06:33 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200407151100.HAA11171@smc.vnet.net>
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On 15 Jul 2004, at 20:00, Daniel Reeves wrote:

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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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>
>

I would say its a bug involving Tr and packed arrays:

Tr[Developer`FromPackedArray[Table[8000000, {269}]]]


2152000000



Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/

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    • From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves@umich.edu>