Is MAX(a+b,c) = MAX(c,a+b) ?

• Subject: Is MAX(a+b,c) = MAX(c,a+b) ?
• From: Raymond Toy
• Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:31:56 -0400

>>>>> "Barton" == Barton Willis <willisb@unk.edu> writes:

[snip]

    Barton> The message that "...requires less than one thousand
    Barton> arguments" isn't very useful! With 50 members, max works
    Barton> okay

[snip]

    Barton> Maxima version: 5.9.0 Maxima build date: 19:10 2/9/2003
    Barton> host type: i686-pc-mingw32 lisp-implementation-type: Kyoto
    Barton> Common Lisp lisp-implementation-version: GCL-2-5.0

gcl 2.4.0 has a call-arguments-limit of 64.  

CMUCL has a call-arguments-limit of most-positive-fixnum; clisp, most
positive 32-bit number.  But ANSI CL says call-arguments-limit must be
at least 50.  Presumably the others Lisps have limits close to
most-positive-fixnum.

Is maxima required to work around limitations of the underlying lisp?

Ray

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