maxima patch: floating point numbers
- Subject: maxima patch: floating point numbers
- From: Sam Steingold
- Date: 07 Oct 2002 12:52:55 -0400
2002-10-07 Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
* clmacs.lisp (*default-float-format*) [CLISP]: set to
'double-float so that, say, (sqrt 4) will be 2d0 and not 2s0.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/num-dict.html#default-float-format>;.
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--- clmacs.lisp.~1.5.~ Sun May 6 14:27:49 2001
+++ clmacs.lisp Mon Oct 7 12:49:07 2002
@@ -495,6 +495,7 @@
(setf (symbol-function 'atan2) (symbol-function 'lisp::atan))
(setq *READ-DEFAULT-FLOAT-FORMAT* 'double-float)
+#+CLISP (setq *DEFAULT-FLOAT-FORMAT* 'double-float)
(defmacro float (x &optional (y 1.0d0)) `(lisp::float ,x ,y))