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Re: $10K Mathematica Machine

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg77202] Re: $10K Mathematica Machine
• From: chuck009 <dmilioto at comcast.com>
• Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:56:37 -0400 (EDT)

Other programs do some things faster than Mathematica (correct me someone if I'm wrong).  Me personally, and I do some Number Theory, is to get a combo of Mathematica for the GUI and a highly efficient number cruncher to do some of the more CPU intensive work.  Example:  calculate RSA code for two 512-digit primes.  I used PARI to do some of the Number Theory calculations, loaded the results into Mathematica and used Mathematica's nice PowerMod function to do the rest.