I have developed a fairly complicated (by my standards) Maple routine that makes heavy use (again by my standards) of the numeric methods dverk78 and rkf45. Recently I posted about differences I seemed to be seeing between running this on Linux and on windows. I was in error; the difference seems to be between Maple 13 and Maple 11. Maple 13 gives the same answers on Linux and on Windows.

I have constructed a Maple routine which makes multiple calls to the dsolve numeric methods rkf45 and dverk78. I have been running on Windows Vista. Recently I began experimenting with Kubuntu Linux, thinking this might run faster. I was surprised to see that the same routine with the same numeric input gives different results depending on whether it is run on Kubuntu or Windows.