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From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48/Kalb/Bos dusts 80486/Mathematica
Message-ID: <285de8fb:3487.3comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 91 12:40:05 GMT
References: <43391@cup.portal.com> <1991Jun17.182703.28007@wri.com>
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John Paul Serafin mentions that "the HP48 programs by Klaus Kalb and
Jurjen Bos [are] much faster than Mathematica 1.2 running on a 25MHz
486."

Peter Montgomery and Doug Stein then compared their high-powered
software on their high-powered machines.

It may titilate the gentry to know that soon another lowly handheld
will blow Mathematica into the proverbial weeds.  Soft Warehouse, Inc,
of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, will be releasing a Derive Card for the HP
95LX.  It is Version 2.05 of Derive, the cream of the symbolic math
package crop.  A beta version of Derive 2.05 (95 LX version), running
on a plain vanilla IBM clone, at just 16 MHz, no math coprocessor,
gave these results:

NUMBER TO FACTOR             TIME TO FACTOR
-------------------------    --------------
4,611,686,018,427,387,903    101.1 sec.
  128,573,131,102,428,317     23.8 sec.
   50,303,624,411,148,161     25.0 sec.
    5,260,991,541,853,343     23.8 sec.

The HP 95LX Derive Card will undoubtedly give similar results.

If you liked muMATH, and love Derive, you'll kill for Derive 2, even
if it's plugged into the side of an HP 95LX, soon to be the only
handheld with a better math package than the HP 48.

-- Joseph K. Horn -- Addicted to Derive, muLISP, and HP! --