On Mar 20, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Prof. J. E. Cremona wrote:

> It is a pity that once the journalist hears that a computation was  
> done
> "on a supercomputer" they only think of hardware, and never software.
> This gives the impression that all we need to have in order to do  
> harder
> and harder "sums" is bigger computers.  If SAGE was used this should
> have been said, with all due credit to its creators (and the  
> authors of
> whatever constituent parts of SAGE were used in the computation).

I believe SAGE (the software) was not used. I got the impression it  
was all C code.

David


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