Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Thomas Kahl <kahl at math.uminho.pt
> <mailto:kahl at math.uminho.pt>> wrote:
>
> I am a beginner in Maxima. I am using version 5.16.3 (CLISP). Is it
> possible that the function fpprintprec does not what it is supposed
> to do?
>
>
> Thomas, thank you for your interest in Maxima!
>
> Unfortunately, you are right, fpprintprec appears to have a serious bug
> where it omits the final digit of the output (and any preceding 0's):
>
> fpprintprec:5;
>
> 1.01b0 => 1.0b0
> 9.23b0 => 9.2b0
> 1.234b0 => 1.23b0
>
I don't know how to write a test case for this bug. Can someone help
with that? I want to add a test case to our test suite.
Ray