ceiling and bigfloats



-----maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote: -----

>In an email interchange with Mike Hansen, I was reminded of this bug...
>
>> (%i5) ceiling(factorial(50)/exp(1));
>> (%o5)  11188719610782480421414879249141773426630319613740326700720324608

In 5.15.0, ceiling returns a noun form

  (%i3) ceiling(factorial(50)/exp(1));
  (%o3)
  ceiling(30414093201713378043612608166064768844377641568960512000000000000*%e^(-1))

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