Re: Bug in maxima



On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:01:37PM -0500, James Amundson wrote:
> Wow. I admire your patience. How long did it take
> 	primep(340282366762482138434845932244680310783)
> to finish? I lost patience after 30 minutes or so.

It took less than a second and returned FALSE. I suspect it is not
actually passing the first pseudo-prime test that Juergen mentioned 
earlier. (Btw, what do you mean by pseudo-prime test? Is it just a
regular Miller-Rabin test or something else? )

> I use Clisp or CMUCL. It looks like a GCL bug, but it will require a
> little more investigation.

It looks likely to be a gcl bug since I am the only one who seems to get
those errors. If I am needed for any kind of debugging task, I have some
spare time at the moment, so you are welcome to ask me.

Best,

Cyril
-- 
Cyril Guyot