Subject: Maxima vs Xmaxima: distict results interpretation
From: Vladimir Bondarenko
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 05:57:50 +0300
Hello all,
A question from a newcomer. In response to bug_report(); both
maxima.exe and xmaxima.exe output identical data
Maxima version: 5.9.0.9beta2
Maxima build date: 10:50 7/27/2004
host type: i686-pc-mingw32
lisp-implementation-type: Kyoto Common Lisp
lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.3
At the same time xmaxima and maxima produce distinct results
-> xmaxima:
STRING(LIMIT(BESSEL_Y(z, 1), z, 0));
BESSEL_Y(0, 1)
%, NUMER;
0.08825696421568
-> maxima: (run from maxima.bat =
"maxima.exe -eval "(user::run)" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9")
STRING(LIMIT(BESSEL_Y(z, 1), z, 0));
BESSEL_Y(0, 1)
%, NUMER;
BESSEL_Y(0, 1)
Of cause, the same without STRING which I used "for beauty".
I was wondering, is this a feature or a bug?
(For my tester's eye this *looks* like a bug; but I should
confess that alas I still have not much time to read the docs
carefully, and maybe this might be interpreted differently)
Much thanks for any comments in advance.
-- Vladimir