newbie question: print rational as decimal number



Maybe you want more precision?

fpprec:100;
bfloat(r);

does it.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu 
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Jaime Villate
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:55 AM
> To: andre maute
> Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] newbie question: print rational as 
> decimal number
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 23:39 +0100, andre maute wrote:
> > what am I supposed to do for printing
> > r :
> > 254471799841260872232137838180485/566407006423962932969881084235776;
> > as decimal number?
>