This is what I saw..
%i1) fpprintprec:5$
(%i2) 1/3.0;
(%o2) 0.333
(%i3) 1/3.0b0;
(%o3) 3.3333b-1
(%i4)
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From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu]
On Behalf Of Stavros Macrakis
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:56 PM
To: fateman at EECS.Berkeley.EDU
Cc: MAXIMA LIST; Raymond Toy
Subject: Re: [Maxima] fpprintprec
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
wrote:
this bug is only for hardware floats, I think.
for bigfloats, fpprintprec apparently works right.\
Actually, I think it is the other way round:
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(%i1) fpprintprec:10;
(%o1) 10
(%i2) 1.01b0;
(%o2) 1.0b0
(%i3) 1.01;
(%o3) 1.01