The functions ?round and ?truncate should be removed from the Maxima user
documentation.
They are just Common Lisp functions, so they do not work for anything
except integers and
double floats. A fun project would be to define functions round and
truncate...
Barton
maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 10/02/2006 01:28:53 PM:
> Hello,
>
> in the manual I found documented the Lisp functions ?round and ?
> truncate (Floating.texi).
> Does this make sense? These functions can't work with Bigfloats.
>
> We have the Maxima functions floor, fix (entier) and ceiling.
> Wouldn't it be better to define round and truncate with the help of
> floor and ceiling?
>
> Volker van Nek
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