Re: How to write reports and books in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg109690] Re: How to write reports and books in Mathematica
- From: Vince Virgilio <blueschi at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 07:32:56 -0400 (EDT)
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On May 11, 6:27 am, Helen Read <h... at together.net> wrote: SNIP > My point is that with the vast number (easily in the thousands) of > Mathematica notebooks I deal with over the course of an academic year, > these sorts of problems are extremely rare. I find Mathematica 7.0.1 to > be extremely stable. I wonder if there is something unusual about your > set-up, or with your specific use of Mathematica, that is causing problem= s. > > -- > Helen Read > University of Vermont I respectfully submit that these numbers can mislead. Student lab-type use does not represent industrial use and pressure. Just now, in Mathematica 7.0.1, I copied an evaluation of SystemInformation[] to WRI Technical Support as an attached notebook. A few minutes later, I opened the sent message, and then the attached notebook. I switched tabs in the SystemInformation[] output, and Mathematica blew a gasket. Up comes a Windows "debug" dialog, and down goes all of Mathematica. Good thing I wasn't hours into a grid job, as I have been before. One could easily take this as a sharp lesson to not do more than one very important thing at a time in Mathematica. Vince Virgilio