This might be a bug caused by changes to explode or friends. We also get
an error from tex(0.4).
(%i4) :lisp(trace explode texnumformat);
(EXPLODE)
(%i4) tex(0.4);
$$
1> (TEXNUMFORMAT 0.40000000000000002)
2> (EXPLODE 0.40000000000000002)
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
Error in SYSTEM::TRACE-CALL [or a callee]: 0.40000000000000002 is not of
type STRING.
Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
(%i5) build_info();
Maxima version: 5.9.1.1cvs
Maxima build date: 12:21 10/20/2004
host type: i686-pc-mingw32
lisp-implementation-type: Kyoto Common Lisp
lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.5
Barton
Chris Sangwin <sangwinc@for.mat.bham.ac.uk>
Sent by: maxima-admin@math.utexas.edu
11/01/2004 08:47 AM
To: maxima@math.utexas.edu
cc:
Subject: [Maxima] tex() function problem.
This seems a trivial issue:
tex(x^0.5) illustrates the problem. I think it should return
$$x^{0.5}$$, not $$x^0.5$$.
Regards
Chris
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