maxima patch: floating point numbers

• Subject: maxima patch: floating point numbers
• From: Raymond Toy
• Date: 07 Oct 2002 13:11:27 -0400

>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

    Sam> 2002-10-07  Sam Steingold  <sds@gnu.org>
    Sam> 	* clmacs.lisp (*default-float-format*) [CLISP]: set to
    Sam> 	'double-float so that, say, (sqrt 4) will be 2d0 and not 2s0.

I assume you mean 2f0 and not 2s0 here.

I think this just hides the bug for clisp (and makes it non-ANSI).
They'll still exist for other lisps, so we should fix it to say (sqrt
4d0) instead.

Ray

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