number printing problems in 5.9.3 xmaxima on windows/GCL
Subject: number printing problems in 5.9.3 xmaxima on windows/GCL
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:35:15 -0400
I'm using the current released version of Maxima, which uses GCL 2.6.7
(Windows). Is there a GCL 2.6.8 built for Windows? Or a
fire-and-forget way of getting it to build on Windows? I simply don't
have the time to play around with cvs etc.
MAXIMA> (setq si::*print-nans* t)
MAXIMA> (* 1.0e300 1.0e300)
#<1.#INF00e+000>
By the way, why did you compile your tests?
-s