Re: $MaxNumber
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- Subject: [mg117293] Re: $MaxNumber
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:59:37 -0500 (EST)
I'm seeing the smaller number here, too, on a 3-yr-old iMac with Mathematica 8.0.1 (64-bit). Bobby On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:24:42 -0500, a evans <aeospam at gmail.com> wrote: > > I would be grateful if someone could help me to understand why my > $MaxNumber is seemingly much lower than it should be. I am running > modern equipment (quad-core 64bit) with windows 7 64-bit and Mathematica > 8.0. The $MaxNumber according to my machine is : > 1.233433712981650*10^323228458. According to reports at the URL below > the $MaxNumber on 64-bit machines in Mathematica 6.0 is up to > 2.093117322269914*10^646456781. This is also the number given in the > wolfram documentation. Any information on how to resolve this I would > kindly appreciate. > > http://www.mathkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/mathematica/11731/What-is-MaxNumber-on-a-64-bit-Computer > > Many regards, > > Arthur > -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com