Doug,
I can not reproduce your error. So what did you do?
By the way, just by typing in a series of 1s I found a neat prime number:
(%i1) factor(11111111111111111111111);
(%o1) 11111111111111111111111
Volker van Nek
dastew at sympatico.ca schrieb:
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> From: dastew at sympatico.ca
> To: volkervannek at googlemail.com; maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:43:33 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] problems with Maxima in Ubuntu 9.04
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>> Hi,
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>> please do the following:
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>> 1. deinstall Maxima 5.13.0 (and also xmaxima, wxmaxima, etc.) via synaptic.
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>> 2. make sure that you have clisp (or sbcl),
>> gnuplot and tk8.5 installed (via synaptic).
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>> 3. download the Maxima 5.18.1 and wxMaxima 0.8.2 deb-packages
>> from http://zeus.nyf.hu/~blahota/maxima/jaunty/ according to your Lisp-system
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>> 4. install by double klicking on the deb packages
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>> I can confirm that that Maxima 5.18.1 works perfectly with Ubuntu 9.04.
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>> Best
>> Volker van Nek
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> It works!
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> No unexpected errors found.
> Real time: 528.9933f0 sec.
> Run time: 517.1043f0 sec.
> Space: 8536911040 Bytes
> GC: 4200, GC time: 78.24086f0 sec.
> (%i1)
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> Thanks again
> Doug
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> With more testing I found this
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> (%i4) factor(1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111);
> (%o4) 317 6163 10271 307627 49172195536083790769
> 3660574762725521461527140564875080461079917
> (%i5) factor(1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111);
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
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> +: NIL is not a number
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> Automatically continuing.
> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> (%i6)
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> so after maxima found the first answer I moved the cursor up the the factor line and then hit enter and got the error message. ( I think there are 79 ones there)
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> this is:
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> Maxima version: 5.18.1
> Maxima build date: 13:17 4/23/2009
> host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> lisp-implementation-type: CLISP
> lisp-implementation-version: 2.44.1 (2008-02-23) (built on vacskamati [127.0.1.1])
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> Would someone try this and see what they get please?
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> Doug Stewart
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