Re: Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
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- Subject: [mg117410] Re: Wolfram, meet Stefan and Boltzmann
- From: Heike Gramberg <heike.gramberg at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:34:32 -0500 (EST)
I'm not sure if it's a hardware thing. On my 2 year old MacBook (2.4 GHz, 2GB memory) it takes about 2.4 seconds directly after starting mathematica:
In[1]:= Timing[Integrate[x^3/(Exp[x] - 1), {x, 0, Infinity}]]
Out[1]= {2.42777, \[Pi]^4/15}
I'm running OS X 10.6.6 and Mathematica 8.0.1, by the way.
Heike.
On 16 Mar 2011, at 11:24, AES wrote:
> In article <ilnh9v$ob3$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Roman <rschmied at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> AES,
>> mine is taking 18 seconds as well, and I have a MacBook as well. Maybe
>> a Mac hardware thing?
>
> Thanks for confirmation.
>
> For the record, I'm absolutely not pushing any agenda here -- just
> curious. Macs and Mathematica do many things so blazingly fast it's
> near unbelievable. And this seems like a relatively simple, smooth
> integral using only simple, smooth, commonplace functions. So why does
> evaluating it take so long?
>