Subject: Setting precision; [Was] A puzzling arithmetic
From: Jonathan
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:09:24 -0600
On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:34 pm, you wrote:
> This is a surprising result, since FPPREC affects the precision of
> bigfloats, and you are not using bigfloats at all. The description
> of FPPREC is quite misleading. Perhaps someone is also using FPPREC
> for some other purpose, maybe for controlling formatted output.
> I believe the commercial macsyma changed the name of this variable,
> and presumably fixed the documentation.
Hi Richard and others:
In fact I did read the old MacSyma docs and decided to use that (naively). I
am new to Maxima but I was curious as to how to fix this problem. That is
when I came across the FPPREC variable.
Kind regards,
Jonathan