Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
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- Subject: [mg117242] Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:10:50 -0500 (EST)
No complaints here, just curious:
Opened my copy of Mathematica 8.0 on my MacBook running Snow Leopard,
and as my first action typed in and evaluated the famous integral
Timing[Integrate[x^3 /(Exp[x]-1),{x,0,Infinity}]]
It took 19.8 seconds to get the famous result Pi^4 / 15.
Seems a bit long -- what might have been taking up the time?