Re: Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
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- Subject: [mg117261] Re: Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:26:09 -0500 (EST)
With Mathematica 8.0.1 on a MacBook (not Pro) with OS X 10.6.6, 2.26 GHz
Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, I get timing of 2.52093 for the same thing.
With Mathematica 8.0.1 on a white-box Windows XP Pro PC, 3.0 GHz Core 2
Duo E6850, 4 GB RAM (with the usual ~3 GB, only, available to Windows
XP), I get timing of 1.656 for the same thing.
On 3/12/2011 5:10 AM, AES 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?
>
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