(mail from Bruno Haible, Dec 20, 1998). I have computed e = exp(1) to 100 millions of decimals. The software used is the soon-to-be-released CLN version 1.0, with FFT and binary splitting. The hardware used is a Sun UltraSPARC-II (2 CPUs, each at 296 MHz) with 512 MB RAM and 2 GB swap space (peak swap use was about 1.3 GB), running Solaris 2.6. Only one of the two CPUs was used in the computation. Timings (done from December 18 to December 20, 1998): computation of exp(1); real time: 40061.367 s, cpu time: 30449.630 s conversion to decimal: real time: 54507.003 s, cpu time: 40063.510 s Best regards, Bruno Haible ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruno Haible email: ILOG S.A. tel: +33 1 4908 3585 9, rue de Verdun - BP 85 fax: +33 1 4908 3510 94253 Gentilly Cedex url: http://www.ilog.fr/ France running Sparc-Linux-BSD-GNU-X11-KDE