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Re: big integer for Range

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• Subject: [mg61265] Re: [mg61239] big integer for Range
• From: Yasvir Tesiram <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
• Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
I just run out of Memory and the kernel shuts down. I have always tried to 
find whether Mathematica has some construct similar to sizeof() but to no 
avail. I don't think it exists. It should exist. Then I think that maybe 
that would open a Pandoras box. How would Max[] and Min[] fit into the 
Mathematica system? Which BTW returns -Infinity and Infinity, repectively.

Yas


On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> Mathematica 5.2 under Windows XP on a 32-bit machine complains if I ask
> it to form Range[10^9].  The error is Range::range: Range specification
> in Range[10000000000] is not a machine-size integer.
>
> Is there a built-in Mathematica function that tells what the machine's
> maximum machine-size integer is?  (And if not, shouldn't there be?)
>
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