Re: $MaxNumber
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg117341] Re: $MaxNumber
- From: "Berthold Hamburger" <b-hamburger at artinso.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 06:07:35 -0500 (EST)
On my win7 64bit with versi=F3n 8.01 64-bit it is: In[5]:= $MaxNumber Out[5]= 1.233433712981650*10^323228458 Which coincides with the value suggested in the help: A typical value for $MaxNumber is around 10^323228429. Regards -- Berthold Hamburger - Cellist/Spain Email: behambu at artinso.com http://www.artinso.com http://www.astro.artinso.com > -----Original Message----- > From: DrMajorBob [mailto:btreat1 at austin.rr.com] > Sent: lunes, 14 de marzo de 2011 12:00 > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg117293] Re: $MaxNumber > > I'm seeing the smaller number here, too, on a 3-yr-old iMac with > Mathematica 8.0.1 (64-bit). > > Bobby > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:24:42 -0500, a evans <aeospam at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 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- > MaxNumb > > er-on-a-64-bit-Computer > > > > Many regards, > > > > Arthur > > > > > -- > DrMajorBob at yahoo.com