Hi,
Actually, 1.4^2 is not exactly 1.96 in Maxima.. for example..
2
(%i1) 1.4
(%o1) 1.96
(%i2) 1.96 - %
(%o2) 2.2204460492503131E-16
Regards,
bowo
On 11/04/07, Henning Siebel <henning.siebel at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can anybody help my with this result:
>
> Maxima 5.11.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp CLISP 2.41 (2006-10-13)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> This is a development version of Maxima. The function bug_report()
> provides bug reporting information.
> (%i1) 3*1.4^2;
> (%o1) 5.879999999999999
>
>
> It obviously should be 5.88. Is there a reason, why maxima produces this result,
> or is this a bug?
>
> Regards,
> Henning
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