On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some long hexadecimal numbers (48 hex digits) I want to use. But
> ibase:16 doesn't seem to accept non-numeric characters as input:
Yes, there is no way to enter a, b, c, ... for digits when ibase > 10.
This came up recently; see:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/20490
The patch mentioned in that message yields
stuff like 1b0 => ibase^2 + 11*ibase when it should be bfloat(1)
(as it is when ibase=10). I've tinkered some more to try to prevent
surprises like that but I haven't gotten it nailed down.
If someone else wants to try it, that would be great.
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier