Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh at uhasselt.be> writes:
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> I can't believe I am seeing this discussion once again. You would
> think that by now people would understand floating point arithmetic.
The issue, as I see it, isn't about understanding floating point
arithmetic, it about what's good enough for Maxima. If Maxima adheres
to standards which allow 3*1.4^2 to not quite be 5.88, in other words
if Maxima can't quite correctly do fifth grade arithmetic, is that good
enough?
Jay