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LeafCount and ByteCount Lie in Mathematica

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Mathematica 9.0 .. on a 32 bit windows machine.

f[n_] := Block[{k = f[n - 1]}, {k, k}]
f[0]=x

  LeafCount[f[k]]  for particular small integers k
returns  the number 2^(k+1)-1.   e.g. for k=3, it returns 15.

But it returns the same answer for k=30, 31, ....
  It returns 2147483647,  which, probably not coincidentally, is 2^31-1.

ByteCount has a similar problem in running out of bits in
its counter.

Anyway, ByteCount also lies in a different way...
  because it doesn't take into account the
sharing that (say) f[70] has.  Without the sharing
implicit in the formula above, I could not compute that --
it has 2.36 X 10^21 leaves. They are just not different leaves.

I would expect that a 64-bit system might work for k=31,
but would conk out somewhere else.

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LeafCount and ByteCount Lie in Mathematica Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> - 2014-05-04 06:28 +0000

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