Hello,
I recently abused Maxima 5.16.3 as a pocket calculator and noticed that
it produced strange roundoff errors in simple floating point
multiplications:
wxMaxima 0.7.6 http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net
Maxima 5.16.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
(%i1) 325.65+471.67;
(%o1) 797.3199999999999
(%i2) 17.91+34.77;
(%o2) 52.68000000000001
Kind regards
Uwe