problem with bigfloats



Hello,

I have just noticed the following with Windows Maxima 5.9.3

(%i1) exp(1.0e-1);
(%o1) 			       1.105170918075648
(%i2) exp(1.0b-1);
				     1.0b-1
(%o2) 				   %e

In 5.9.2 both expressions returned numerical values. 

Is this intended?

For instance function newton is affected by this. The code of newton misses a line 
'numer:true' and so it now hangs, if I try to solve an equation with function exp.

Volker van Nek