>>>>> "Jaime" == Jaime E Villate <villate@gnu.org> writes:
Jaime> Hi,
Jaime> I've just submitted a bug report, but I'd also like to mention it in
Jaime> this list. asin is giving wrong results (Maxima 5.9.0 from Debian's
Jaime> package 5.9.0-11)
Jaime> (C5) asin(0.5);
Jaime> (D5) 0.5
Jaime> (C6) asin(0.99);
Jaime> (D6) 0.99
This doesn't happen for me, with the current CVS head code, on cmucl.
Jaime> (C7) asin(1);
Jaime> (D7) %PI/2
Jaime> The plot of the function shows a really weird function:
Jaime> (C8) plot2d(asin(x), [x,-4,4])$
This is a bit of a problem since asin(x) is complex for |x| > 1. And
cmucl crashes in this case. Ick.
Ray