Hmmm this sounds like a bug in the cputime() command. I will ask
around on the sage-devel list.
david
On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:52 AM, DanK wrote:
> For the problem with the negative time i have started following
> computation:
>
> Zeit=cputime()
> for i in range(100000):
> g=maxima('193^99484')
> Ergebnis=cputime(Zeit)
> print Ergebnis
>
> and get following intressting result:
>
> 130.62
> 262.78
> 393.85
> 524.81
> 656.77
> 788.77
> 917.66
> 1046.38
> 1176.15
> 1307.78
> 1439.65
> 1571.42
> 1701.97
> 1832.77
> 1962.88
> 2093.95
> -2071.387296
> -1940.027296
> -1808.707296
> -1677.137296
> -1543.907296
> -1410.187296
> -1279.297296
> -1146.907296
> -1016.587296
> -885.917296
> -752.657296
> -620.757296
> -489.627296
> -358.087296
> -224.227296
> -94.367296
> 36.762704
>
> and so on, so the sign of the time changes about around every 2100
> seconds.
> Is this a problem of my computer or of the cputime command?
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