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Efried1-Visitor
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January 14, 2011
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Error M14

  • January 14, 2011
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Hi,

I just encounterd multiple crashes yesterday - especially plotting with huge floating point numbers seems to stall. Storing the 8MB big file takles quite some time may be it computes all the sheet before saving.

Today I'm confronted with frequent "invalid pointer" messagers in German "ungültiger zeiger" .

2 Questions:

- what does this pop-up want to say to me?

- should I invest 320€ to head to M15?

May be also cleaning the xmcd may help?

thanks

gerfried

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
January 14, 2011

Which version of 14, which OS?

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Efried1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 14, 2011

OS= W7

Version M20

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
January 14, 2011

I assume you mean M020. I thought that worked with W7.

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Efried1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 15, 2011

Yes Mathcad 14.0 M020 (14.0.2.5)in German

Depends on what you mean wit "that". Doing simply pencil and paper type calculations certainly works. I howver would not attribute the problems to W7. I think there are internal Mathcad problems with the graphic engine not only showing blank images when there is "frame" ticked but also stalling when having to plot data like 1e377 .

And there might be some problems when writing the xmcad file, copying the content to a new sheed destroyed some formatting (font size) but gave a more stable working environment and saved me from the "invalid pointer" dead end.

If you tell me that version 15 was tested by marketing staff only and not by heavy users I would refrain from investing into that update.... Please give me your ideas.

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