Re: [math-fun] "Ponder This"

Fred lunnon: Magma running on iMac core-i7 is 10x faster.. q := 31415; time squsq := foursquares(q); Time: 0.170 #squsq; 829 Since Bill Gosper was using his own timing function (as opposed to one of Mathematica's built-in timing functions), I guess it needs to be asked: Is your time absolute or CPU-time only?