printing floats (2/3), was: minor strangeness in cvs head maxima
Subject: printing floats (2/3), was: minor strangeness in cvs head maxima
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:42:06 -0400
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier writes:
Robert> 2nd message ...
Robert> An unrelated item -- entering 1.0 => 1. output. I don't
Robert> think it used
Robert> to be like that.
Robert> 1.0 => 1.0 in Maxima 5.9.2 / gcl & clisp,
Robert> 1.0 => 1. in Maxima 5.9.1 cvs / clisp & sbcl.
Ray> Aargh! Try 1.234d200. It prints out almost 200 zeroes. That is
Ray> definitely NOT what we want, and 5.9.2 needs to be fixed. I really
Ray> screwed this up.
Ray> I'll have a fix for this soon. I misunderstood what ~g does.
Ray> Whatever it is, it doesn't switch to ~e when the number is large.
Robert> Comment -- 5.9.2 branch doesn't have the new code for
Robert> printing floats, so it doesn't need to be fixed. Whew!
I should have looked for myself. But I don't feel such an urgency in
fixing this then. :-)
Ray