printing of floating point numbers and integers in Maxima
Subject: printing of floating point numbers and integers in Maxima
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:27:09 -0800
I think you are right; I will rethink this. It just fell into place trying to deal with structures, but it easily left out.. I'm traveling now, so not much will happen on my end for a week or more.
RJF
----- Original Message -----
From: Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:10 am
Subject: Re: [Maxima] printing of floating point numbers and integers in Maxima
To: fateman at EECS.Berkeley.EDU
Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> nformat doesn't seem like the right place to be formatting numbers. nformat
> is a structure-to-structure map, not a structure-to-string map. I think
> makestring (in displa.lisp) and msize-atom (in grind.lisp) should call
> a new
> common number-formatting function.
>
> On Dec 18, 2007 7:51 PM, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > Here's what a new version of nformat provides.
> > floatformat
> > integerformat
> > are variables set to directives for formatting common lisp numbers
> in the
> > display.
> >