Hi Dave!
On 6 Sep., 22:29, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> > Is the endianness really different on sage.math and t2.math?
>
> Yes. x86 are little endian. SPARC is big endian.
Cool! Now I am really proud that my code mostly works on t2.
> I can try the code if you want on my OpenSolaris system. That uses an Intel
> Xeon
> processor, so is little endian.
Frank Lübeck suggested to use this little example in GAP:
Reset(GlobalMersenneTwister);; List([1..10],i->Random(1,100000));
The resulting sequence seems to depend on endianness.
> > But endianness strikes back in an unexpected way...
>
> I used to work on a 24-bit machine. Either the most (or least), my memory
> fails
> me, was in the middle!
Interesting design concept...
Best regards,,
Simon
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