Re: [SLE] Mathematica 5.0

From: Shawn Tanner (Shawn.Tanner_at_Colorado.EDU)
Date: 01/19/04

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:14:23 -0700

    On Saturday 17 January 2004 8:15 am, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
    > 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.

    I wrote the technical support and they said this has been fixed in release
    5.01. I wrote to info@wolfram.com to see if I could get an upgrade. Have
    not heard back yet. 

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