Re: $MaxNumber
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg117345] Re: $MaxNumber
- From: George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:08:19 -0500 (EST)
Two things: On my Professional version -- 8.0.1 on 64 bit Intel, I get the following: In[3]:= $MaxNumber Out[3]= 1.233433712981650*10^323228458 In[4]:= $Version Out[4]= 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 23, 2011) It appears that the problem is not with the home edition. Second question: Is the home edition (from 8.0.1 on) going to be 64 bit? The website for the home version does not mention this. Thanks. george woodrow On Mar 14, 2011, at 6:59 AM, John Fultz 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 >