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Re: $MaxNumber

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  • Subject: [mg117321] Re: $MaxNumber
  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:03:56 -0500 (EST)

How can we tell, if we're running the Home Edition when it should be  
Academic?

Help About and $Version give no clue, and SystemInformation just beeps.

Bobby

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:59:04 -0500, John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com> wrote:

> 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
>


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