Re: [SLE] Mathematica 5.0

From: Alexandr Malusek (Alexandr.Malusek_at_imv.liu.se)
Date: 01/17/04

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    Shawn Tanner <Shawn.Tanner@Colorado.EDU> writes:

    > I need help with mathematica 5.0 and Suse 9.0. I am having problems
    > when plotting real small numbers. For instance Sin[x] will plot fine
    > but 5E-6*Sin[x] will cause mathematica to freeze. Has anyone seen
    > this issue previously.

    Yes. I reported a similar bug to a local reseller several months ago:
    Mathematica 5.0 GUI freezes when the ListPlot[] command plots small
    numbers. The response was that it worked with Windows 2000. Nevertheless
    they sent the bug report to WRI and the response was:

    <cite>
    Thank you for taking the time to send us this report. I have forwarded
    your examples to our development group. This is a problem our developers
    are aware of and they are working on resolving the issue.Unfortunately,
    there are no general solutions to this problem at this point in time.

    I am sorry for any inconvenience caused by this problem.

    Sincerely,
    Technical Support
    Wolfram Research, Inc.
    support@wolfram.com
    </cite>

    I haven't heard anything new since then.

    SUSE Linux 8.2 and Solaris 9 are also affected by this bug. IMHO the
    developers had known about the bug even before Mathematica 5.0 was
    released. Mathematica 5.0 worked on Windows and nothing else mattered.

    As a workaround, I call the Math kernel directly from an Emacs shell.
    It gives me history and command line editing. Graphics goes to a
    special window.

    If I need the notebook then I use Mathematica 4.2. But the copy and
    paste feature doesn't work well there. 

    --
A.M.
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