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Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ?

From Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ?
Date 2018-06-06 08:50 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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bursejan@gmail.com <bursejan@gmail.com> wrote:
> The 8.5 secs are plausible. I already tested another
> system, which could do it in around 20 secs.
>
>   ECLiPSe Constraint Logic Programming System [kernel threads]
>   Version 7.0 #36 (x86_64_nt), Sun Jan 28 10:18 2018
>
>   [eclipse 2]: _ is 9^(9^9).
>   Yes (20.09s cpu)
>
> So the magnitude of this time measure is plausible.
> I did not double check the result, the 370 mio digits. 
>
> Not sure whether I should check the result..

Maybe, both SWI-Prolog and ECLiPSe are both smart in detecting
and avoiding calculations "assigned" to "_".

Unless you can store the result in a variable and query some
properties of it for checking it might just have skipped some
of the calculations. 

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Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-01 10:20 -0700
  Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-06-01 13:36 -0400
    Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2018-06-01 20:20 +0200
      Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-05 07:17 -0700
        Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-05 07:29 -0700
          Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-05 07:48 -0700
          Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-06-05 10:57 -0400
            Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-05 09:32 -0700
              Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-06-05 13:58 -0400
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-05 11:10 -0700
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-05 11:21 -0700
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2018-06-06 08:50 +0000
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-06 01:58 -0700
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-06 02:01 -0700
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-06 10:34 -0700
  Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2018-06-09 21:06 +0200
    Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2018-06-09 23:29 +0000
      Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-06-10 09:13 +0000
        Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-10 02:31 -0700
          Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-06-10 18:28 -0400
            Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-10 15:48 -0700
              Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-10 15:52 -0700
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-10 15:58 -0700
              Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-06-10 21:17 -0400
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-11 13:20 -0700
                Re: Can Java compute 9^(9^9) ? bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-06-14 13:37 -0700

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