Re: Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
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- Subject: [mg117273] Re: Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
- From: telefunkenvf14 <rgorka at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:28:20 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 12, 4:11 am, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 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?
AbsoluteTiming of 1.69 here...
Sony Z, i7 620m, Windows 7
-RG