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computing times and output display

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• Subject: [mg66923] computing times and output display
• From: "Steven Shippee" <droukas at comcast.net>
• Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 01:09:57 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-to: "Steven Shippee" <slshippee at comcast.net>
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Running Mathematica version 5.2 on Windows XP Professional with an older 
Pentium III 833MHz processor and 512 GB of RAM.

Anyone know why 8^8^8 (or 9^9^9) takes several minutes to "compute" and 
display results, but in a new fresh kernel/environment 9^9^9. (decimal after 
the last number 9) one gets an almost instantaneous response?  Is this 
merely the difference in preparing for the output of the computation to the 
screen ...

Thanks in advance,

Steven Shippee 

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