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Re: [Axiom-developer] [Richard Fateman <address@hidden>] Re: [Maxima] st
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] [Richard Fateman <address@hidden>] Re: [Maxima] strange behaviour with simple decimals / Axiom |
Date: |
11 Apr 2007 20:40:21 -0500 |
"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
| Quoting Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden>:
|
| >
| > FYI.
|
| Here is the result from Maxima:
|
| Maxima 5.11.99rc1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
| Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
| Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file
| COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. This is a
| development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
| provides bug reporting information. (%i1) 1.4^2;
| (%o1) 1.96
| (%i2) 1.96 - 1.4^2;
| (%o2) 2.2204460492503131E-16
| (%i3)
I believe that can explained by the fact that Axiom uses the host
"long double" C datatype for DoubleFloat whereas Maxima must be using
the more conventional and reliable "double" C datatype.
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|
| Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:54:35 -0700
| Subject: Re: [Maxima] strange behaviour with simple decimals / Axiom
| From: Richard Fateman <address@hidden>
| To: address@hidden
| In Axiom version of 1/17/2005
|
| 1.4^2 comes out as 1.96
|
| 1.96 - 1.4^2 comes out as 0.7 E -20
|
| I don't know if this counts as unexpected to a 5th grader, but does a
| 5th grader even know about "E" scientific notation?
|
| ------
|
| What's his point?
If he reads this mailing list you would get an answer :-)
-- Gaby