On 5/5/07, Rainer Joswig <joswig at lisp.de> wrote:
> > Sorry, my mistake. I asked the wrong question. I meant to say,
> > What does (INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT 5.2d20) return?
> MAXIMA 19 > (INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT 5.2d20)
> 7934570312500000
> 16
> 1
OK, that seems like the correct result. At this point I give up.
I'm still interested to know why 7.000000000000013E19 yields a
test failure compared to 7.0E19.
Thanks for your help,
Robert