21 years ahead in math and blocked by a stupid field display bug?

[Wouter]

Hi Xav,

Sorry to say but is no bug.
It is the way Scott Raney implemented the wrap in metacard.
Wrap on words. Nothing else.
His way of saying (in a mail years ago) was something like: "No spaces, 
no words, no wraps".

May be a featurerequest to something as a new windowwrap property?
The other limit you will hit is a prime of 64k length (then you'll have 
to add a space ;-)

Greetings,
Wouter



> 	• 	From: MisterX
> 	• 	 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:13:32 -0700
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Im about to bring RR 21 years ahead of history:
>
> Apparently it will take until 2025 to discover a prime number
> with 1,000,000,000 digits.
>
>  http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/notes/by_year.html
>
> I found a way to generate this BUT...
>
> if I display a just a 100 digits number the field which has its
> dontwrap set to false persist in not wrapping this number! EVERY
> other program I can paste this number into will wrap the number
> correctly but not RunRev...
>
> So am I supposed to do this manually by inserting spaces in between
> and look stupid in front of the scientific community?
>
> I know I can save the number in a file and not say with what
> progam I did it. But that would not be a good thing for RR...
>
> Last but not least, I expect RR to crash by the time I get to some
> 2^16 digits... I reported this limit a couple years ago but
> it's probably still not fixed... And naturally saving it each time
> is time consuming when you want to "display" this number and make
> RR famous...
>
> Has anyone got a solution? put spaces in the number? pffff...
>
> Anyone's solution is welcome! number formating? sure!
>
> Testing the number for primality is left as an excercise in case that 
> was
> your question! I assert that it is but dont have the computer power to
> prove so - RR needs a bit more optimization, multithreading to work 
> out a
> network distributed processor for that!
>
> Nothing RR can do is it? ;)
>
> No, I dont want to deal with C nor can I afford mathematica...
>
> A file based stack is coming tonite anyway!
>
> cheers
> Xavier