Re: Re: Re: Combined Set, SetDelayed
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- Subject: [mg100892] Re: [mg100836] Re: [mg100829] Re: Combined Set, SetDelayed
- From: peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:45:45 -0400 (EDT)
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yes, even on my iMac that seems unfeasible. P 2009/6/17 Louis Talman <talmanl at gmail.com>: > How about "impossibly quick"? in 2E-15 seconds, light travels just 0.0= 006 > millimeters. Not even close to the width of the chip... > On Jun 16, 2009, at 7:48 PM, peter wrote: > > seems amazingly quick - 10^-15 seconds.....? > > 2009/6/15 Helen Read <hpr at together.net>: > > AES wrote: > > Helen Read <hpr at together.net> > > wrote: > > 0.811 seconds. The second version, using the function that remembers > > values, took only 1.87003*10^-15 seconds. > > The frequency of visible light is around 3*10^14 Hz, so that's around > > one period of a visible light wave. Is there maybe a typo here? > > No, no typo. Not sure what your point is. > > -- > > Helen Read > > University of Vermont > > > > > > -- > Peter Lindsay > > --Lou Talman > Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences > Metropolitan State College of Denver > <http://clem.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl> > -- Peter Lindsay