Maxima 5.17.0 release



Am Montag, den 08.12.2008, 16:43 -0800 schrieb Edwin Woollett:

> and the differences:
> 
> (%i10) %o9 - %o8;
> (%o10) [8.0491169285323849E-15-5.5511151231257827E-17*%i,
>         2.2204460492503131E-16*%i+7.6605388699135801E-15,
>         2.5424107263916085E-14-3.6082248300317588E-15*%i,
>         5.8352933596239609E-11*%i+4.1387115956581511E-11,
>         1.9600563649913028E-7*%i+2.5509862389139215E-7,
>         0.016804536220479*%i-0.0089949769040033,
>         -7101.770897795603*%i-2016.743759694998]

You have found a bug. I needed some time to get the reason for the wrong
calculation, but there is a range of values where we get wrong results
for a negative realpart of a complex number.

I will look at the bug and correct it.

Thank you very much for the help. 

Dieter Kaiser