maxima patch: floating point numbers

• Subject: maxima patch: floating point numbers
• From: James Amundson
• Date: 27 Oct 2002 21:02:53 -0600

I applied this patch. We definitely need to investigate floating point
precision issues in the rest of the source, however.

Thanks.

--Jim

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 11:52, Sam Steingold wrote:
> 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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