On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 11/2/06, sen1 at math.msu.edu <sen1 at math.msu.edu> wrote:
>
>> In the gcl I am using, I get
>>
>> >(sin (* 7.25 pi))
>>
>> -0.70710678118654757
>
> GCL's result above is correct (to many digits).
>
> I'm confused about which Lisp version yielded the erroneous plot.
> In a Maxima session which demonstrates the bug, what does build_info(); show?
Here it is
(%i1) build_info();
Maxima version: 5.10.0
Maxima build date: 17:17 9/23/2006
host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
lisp-implementation-type: CLISP
lisp-implementation-version: 2.39 (2006-07-16) (built 3362746733)
(memory 3368035036)
>
> For what it's worth, the Maxima rpms distributed from the Sourceforge
> file manager were compiled with Clisp, which does exhibit the bug.
>
> Robert
>
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