Maxima interface to Lisp bit-functions



On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM, van Nek <van.nek at arcor.de> wrote:
> Mmmh? 8=2^3. I can't follow here.

Yes, sorry for the stupid error.

> I know you are in favour of extending these functions. But today I regard
> these extensions as future plans.

Agreed.  I was just thinking about extensibility.

> By the way, there is a floor bug:
> (%i1) floor(log(8)/log(2));
> (%o1)                                  2

Yes, that is not good at all.  Floor is using approximate methods for
this, which is really dicey.  Radcan gets the correct result.

                 -s