A little bit of Mathematica history
Nasser M. Abbasi, Feb 8, 2013
Here are my Mathematica related bookmarks
version | release data | time from last release |
1 | June 1988 | N/A |
2 | Jan 1991 | 2.5 years |
3 | sept 1996 | 5.8 years |
4 | may 1999 | 2.8 years |
5 | June 2003 | 3 years |
6 | May 2007 | 4 years |
7 | Nov 2008 | 1.3 years |
8 | Nov 2010 | 2 years |
9 | Nov 2012 | 2 years |
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version | Release date | Binary .exe size (in bytes) | Number of pages in the Mathematica book by Wolfram | Lines of code | Number of Functions (approximate) see plot in ref (3) in System context only | Functions in System | Mathematica symbols using Length[Names[”System‘*”]]
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1.0 | June 23, 1988 |
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| 150,000 | 600 |
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1.1 | 1989 | ||||||
1.2 | August 1, 1989 |
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2.0 | January 15, 1991 |
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| 350,000 | 883 |
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2.1 | June 15, 1992 |
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2.2 | June 1, 1993 |
| 961 (second edition)
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3.0 | September 3, 1996 |
| 1403 | 600,000 | 1200
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3.0.1 | July 29, 1997 |
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4.0 | May 19, 1999 |
| 1496 | 800,000 | 1300 |
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4.0.1 | September 1999 |
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4.0.2 | August 2000 |
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4.1 | November 2, 2000 | 49,224,870 |
| 850,000 |
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| 1861 listing |
4.2 | November 1, 2002 |
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5.0 | June 12, 2003 | 89,337,856 | 1488 | 1.5 millions | 1500 |
| 1920 listing |
5.0.1 | January 2004 |
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5.1 | October 25, 2004 | 112,734,208 |
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| 1984 listing |
5.1.1 | March 2005 |
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5.2 | June 20, 2005 | 159,301,632 |
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| 1984 listing |
6.0 | May 1, 2007 | 476,127,232 |
| 2.5 millions | 2100 |
| 2958 listing |
6.0.1 | July 5, 2007 | 468,983,808 |
| 2.5 millions |
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6.0.2 | March 2008 |
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6.0.3 | June 2008 |
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7.0 | November 18, 2008 | 478,662,656 |
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| 2550 | 3429 listing
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7.0.1 | March 5, 2009 |
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8.0 | November 15, 2010 | 1,315,961,636
(1.3 GB, on
Linux) |
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| 2467 |
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8.0.1 | Feb 23 , 2011 | 832.51 MB for windows .EXE (872,945,544 bytes) |
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| 2468 | functions
and
symbols
listing
HTML
PDF
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8.0.4 | October 26 , 2011 | 916 MB for windows .EXE (960,254,792 bytes) |
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9 | Nov 28 , 2012 | windows
: 1.2
GB(1,210,695,064
bytes) mac: 1.2 GB
(1,273,266,681
bytes) Linux:
1.8 GB
(1,781,256,995
byes) |
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| 92 different
contexts
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9.0.1 | Jan 31, 2013 |
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