Someone posted this on sci.math.symbolic, which I've never seen before, and is the most detailed list I've see of the algorithms used by Mathematica.
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/note/SomeNotesOnInternalImplementation.html On a somewhat different topic, it was pointed out that Mark Sofroniou (one of the numerical algorithm developers at Wolfram Research) and Giulia Spaletta (a numerical analyst at the University of Bologna) published a paper that details the specifics of significance arithmetic as it is implemented in Mathematica: "Precise numerical computation" The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming Volume 64, Issue 1, Pages 113-134 (July 2005) Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
