scale-float bug in GCL (was Re: [Maxima] asin and acos wrong)



Greetings, and thanks for the heads up!

Fixed in both 2.6.1, and cvs head.  New binaries being built now for
upload.  Should appear on the temporary distribution site
(http://people.debian.org/~camm/gcl) shortly.

Take care,

James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:23, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> > (lisp-implementation-version)
> > "GCL-2-5.2000000000000002"
> > 
> > (scale-float 1.0 -24)
> > 1.0
> 
> Thank you, Wolfgang. Here's what I see:
> 
> New: (prompt changed to %)
> 
> %(lisp-implementation-version)
> "GCL-2-6.0999999999999996"
> %(scale-float 1.0 -24)
> 1.0
> 
> Old:
> 
> %(lisp-implementation-version)
> "GCL-2-5.0"
> %(scale-float 1.0 -24)
> 5.9604644775390625E-8
> 
> So I stand corrected: the problem *is* a bug in GCL.
> 
> --Jim
> 
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