Hello,
I have not migrated to the "bug reporting list" yet. If this is more
appropriately put there, I'll be happy to do that.
In Win-XP xmaxima 5.9.3.99rc2
(%i1) 5.1 + 3.2;
(%o1) 8.300000000000001
(%i2) fpprec: 30;
(%o2) 30
(%i3) 5.1 + 3.2;
(%o3) 8.300000000000001
I checked this in v. 5.9.3 and the same problem occurs, except that
the last digit when done in hihg precision is a "?"
I did the same test in Linux and the problem is NOT there. The
result is 8.3 as it should be.
I think others should try this to see if it occurs on their systems.
I tried this on two different Win-XP machines, so it is not likely to
ba a hardware problem.
I hope others try this to verify whether these are problems with my
installation of they exist everywhere.
-sen
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