Re: $MaxNumber
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg117290] Re: $MaxNumber
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:59:04 -0500 (EST)
Perhaps you have Home Edition of Mathematica. Until the most recent release (8.0.1, released just a few days ago), Home Edition included only 32-bit versions of Mathematica. Sincerely, John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com User Interface Group Wolfram Research, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "a evans" <aeospam at gmail.com> > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 5:24:42 AM > Subject: [mg117253] $MaxNumber > 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