On 2/14/07, RalfGesellensetter <rgx at gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> being quite new to maxima, I wonder how to get all digits in a context
> like this:
>
> (%i1) fpprec : 66000;
> (%o1) 66000
> (%i2) 2^216091-1;
> (%o2) 746093103064661343687339579400[64990 digits]
> 514111877691336204103815528447
> (%i3) bfloat(2^216091-1);
> (%o3) 7.4609310306466134368733957940[64997 digits]
> 877691336204103815528447b65049
Enter set_display(ascii) to get the ascii art display produced by
maxima. Displaying 64000 digits is pretty useless in my opinion and
that is why wxmaxima does not work too hard to get something better.
--
Andrej