On 9/26/06, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to work with integers to base 16, both in inout and
> output, under Maxima 5.10. To that effect I set obase to 16 and ibase
> to 16, in this order. The problem is, how do I specify a hex integer
> on input? The help text for ibase says that for bases greater than 10
> (and less than 35) one should use the capital letters of the alphabet.
The help text is out of date, sorry about that.
Maxima rejects letters A -- F as hex digits for input.
A proposal to change that met with opposition a few months ago.
In this message
http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2006/013732.html
there are a few lines of code which you can input
(via to_lisp() and (to-maxima)) to get Maxima to accept hex digits for input.
HTH
Robert Dodier