scale-float bug in GCL (was Re: [Maxima] asin and acos wrong)
Subject: scale-float bug in GCL (was Re: [Maxima] asin and acos wrong)
From: Camm Maguire
Date: 02 Oct 2003 10:06:33 -0400
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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