evaluating erf(%i) in maxima



On 5/20/05, Richard Fateman  wrote:

> This does get back to the issue of how to interface with Common Lisp
> numbers.
> ...


We could have a program that attempts to common-lispify all
> possible numbers, and then do arithmetic using the common-lisp
> programs like sin, cos, ..=20


Yes, this is a possible approach, but of course it doesn't help with bfloat,
complexes, intervals, numbers with differentials ("automatic
differentiation"), and other types of quasi-number.

-s