Big float Round off errors



On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Richard Fateman
<fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>  Maxima 5.14.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
>  Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
>  (%i2) rat(bfloat(0.1));
>  `pquotient' by zero
>   -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);

This works for me in the same version: Maxima 5.14.0, GCL 2.6.8, Windows XP.

         -s