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Re: Are these bugs fixed in Mathematica 8 ?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg114602] Re: Are these bugs fixed in Mathematica 8 ?
• From: Jason Ledbetter <jasonbrent at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:28:31 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:

>
> On 8 Dec 2010, at 12:40, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
> >>
> >> In[16]:== 10^80000<  Exp[1.5*^-323228465]
> >>
> >> Out[16]== True
> >
> >       (* Mathematica 8: same result *)
>
> Hmm...I get:
>
> In[12]:== 10^80000<Exp[1.5*^-323228465]
> During evaluation of In[12]:== General::unfl: Underflow occurred in
> computation. >>
> Out[12]== False
>
> but mine is still a pre-release version of 8
>
> In[13]:== $Version
> Out[13]== 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (September 10, 2010)
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
>
>
I'm NOT running pre-release version of 8 for Mac and get the same result as
Mr. Kozlowski.

In[118]:= $Version
Out[118]= "8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (November 6, 2010)"

-jbl