Subject: Maxima gives incorrect results with ceiling
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:35:29 -0500
On Dec 7, 2007 1:21 PM, van Nek <van.nek at arcor.de> wrote:
> I think, with floating point numbers every system will give an incorrect
> answer.
>
Yes, but Mike didn't ask for a floating-point calculation. He asked for an
exact calculation, and currently Maxima gives an incorrect result because
*internally* it uses an approximation method based (as it happens) on
bigfloats. Mike is right to expect a correct result.
-s