I'm pretty sure that all of them were doubles; in GCL:
(%i1) float(%pi);
(%o1) 3.141592653589793
(%i2) ?print(%);
3.1415926535897931
Notice ...793 vs ...7931. Regardless of the value of fpprintprec the
last digit isn't printed in GCL, I think.
Barton
maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 10/08/2008 10:00:16 AM:
> [image removed]
>
> Re: [Maxima] fpprintprec
>
> Raymond Toy
>
> to:
>
> Barton Willis
>
> 10/08/2008 10:05 AM
>
> Sent by:
>
> maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
>
> Cc:
>
> fateman, MAXIMA LIST, Stavros Macrakis
>
> Barton Willis wrote:
> > By the way, sometime ago I changed the equality testing in the Maxima
> > test suite. I found a bunch of tests
> > that failed with the new equality test because the last digit of a
float
> > was missing in the expected answer.
> > (The old equality test was too forgiving.)
> >
> > So, it would be great if we had better printing of floats.
>
> Floats or bfloats? I'm not planning on doing anything about floats. If
> they're wrong, we need to complain about the underlying lisp.
>
> I'm willing to fix it for bfloats, though.
>
> Ray
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