In wxMaxima 0.7.6 + Maxima 5.16.3 I get the following sequence:
(%i1) log(10^308), numer;
(%o1) 709.1962086421661
(%i2) log(10^309), numer;
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
Error in SETQ [or a callee]: Can't print a non-number.
Automatically continuing.
To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
(%i3) log(10^308)+log(10), numer;
(%o3) 711.4987937351601
(%i4)
Have I reached some strange boundary here? Is there a way to move the
boundary upward (say to 10^400) instead of breaking the calculation into
pieces?
-- George Leeman