Robert Dodier wrote:
>Hello Thomas,
>
>I have taken the liberty of forwarding your message to the Maxima list.
>
>It seems to me you have terrific qualifications for contributing to Maxima.
>I can think of a couple of areas you might consider:
>
> -- There are a large number of minor bugs in various parts of the code.
> See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=4933&atid=104933
> Many bug reports include suggested patches.
>
> -- Implementation of new functionality in topics familiar to you.
> http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_33.html
> has a list of the built-in functions which are related to arithmetic and
> continued fractions. Perhaps you could merge in some functions
> from PARI/GP ?? Just guessing here.
>
>Thanks a lot for your interest in Maxima!
>
>Robert Dodier
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Thomas Baruchel
>Date: Oct 5, 2005 12:03 PM
>Subject: Contributing to Maxima
>To: robert.dodier@gmail.com
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I discovered Maxima a few months ago, and decided to use it rather than
>MuPAD for several kinds of reasons ; I am very happy of my choice, and
>would be happy to be more involved in the software if I may help.
>As an open-source programmer, I have already worked on numerical topics,
>see http://contfrac.sourceforge.net/ in OCaml ou
> http://eisseeker.sourceforge.net/ in C + Scheme
>I am also a member of a surviving project called "computing pi", though
>
>
Hi Thomas Baruchel if you are a PI fan :-) them mayby you could start by fixing the PI code in Maxima (I know it is not a big isue but ) At 1000 digits the last one is wrong
2 wrong at 10000
3 wrong at 100000
4 wrong at 1 000 000.
etc.
I think this is what I found, It was last May so I am going by memory.
Just a sugestion for what I think would be a way to get to know Maxima.
Start were ever you want. :-)
Doug Stewart
I love this Maxima!