Re: How much time to count from 1 to 1e7?

[Etienne Grossmann]

On 09-Aug-01 Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> ps : Note that this is faster than while (P2, 350MHz)(won't do for
>     unkown number of loops, though)
> 
> octave:122> tic; for i = 1:1e7, end; toc
> ans = 43.791

>From address@hidden Thu Aug  9 10:33:20 2001

# Interesting! With a P3/733MHz I get 49.123 (pretty repeatable).
# (SuSE Linux 7.2, octave 2.0.16)

# What's your secret, Etienne?

  I'm on a spaceship going near speed of light.

  It could also have to do w/ using 2.1.34.

  Etienne



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