-----maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
>To: Richard Fateman <fateman at EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
>From: Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com>
>Sent by: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
>Date: 08/09/2007 10:22AM
>cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu, sen1 at math.msu.edu, Harald Geyer
><Harald.Geyer at gmx.at>
>Subject: Re: [Maxima] bug in rational arithmetic ?
>
>Richard Fateman wrote:
>>
>> bfloat(2.1d0) should be
>>
>> 2.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625b0
>>
>
>Should we make this change?
Yes.
Barton