Hi,
I just installed Maxima from the Ubuntu repository and ran
all the tests. On the first run through, all tests passed with
no errors. I tried a second time with the processor running
at full speed, and on the second run found the following message:
Running tests in rtest15:
********************** Problem 174 ***************
Input:
exp(1.0b-1)
Result:
1.10517091807564763b0
This differed from the expected result:
1.105170918075648b0
218/219 tests passed (not counting 1 expected errors).
It turns out not to be dependent on the processor speed, but
only on *when* the test is run: If Maxima is re-started then
all tests pass with no problems, but subsequent runs of the
test produce the error, even if I have Maxima clear the
memory (e.g., Maxima > clear memory > kill all).
Any ideas?
--Mike
Info:
Maxima version: 5.13.0
Maxima build date: 9:20 12/12/2007
host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
lisp-implementation-type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
lisp-implementation-version: GCL 2.6.8