New Maxima user has problem



Bob Baker wrote:
> Thanks, Jaime.  This may explain why Raymond and I got different 
> results.  I was using 5.13.0, which came bundled with Euler.  I saw on 
> the Maxima web site there is a newer version, so I installed 5.14.0.  
> It gives me the same result.  Now I guess I need to know what Clisp 
> and GCL 
Clisp and GCL are different lisp implementations.
> are and how to tell which one I am using.
The maxima command build_info(), as in:
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(%i1) build_info();

Maxima version: 5.14.0
Maxima build date: 10:24 1/2/2008
host type: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
lisp-implementation-type: SBCL
lisp-implementation-version: 1.0.13

(%o1)
(%i2) quit();
-----------------------------------------------------------------

is what you want.

--Jim Amundson