> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 21:02:52 +0200
> From: volkervannek at googlemail.com
> To: dastew at sympatico.ca; Maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] problems with Maxima in Ubuntu 9.04
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> please do the following:
> >>
> >> 1. deinstall Maxima 5.13.0 (and also xmaxima, wxmaxima, etc.) via synaptic.
> >>
> >> 2. make sure that you have clisp (or sbcl),
> >> gnuplot and tk8.5 installed (via synaptic).
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 4. install by double klicking on the deb packages
> >>
> >> I can confirm that that Maxima 5.18.1 works perfectly with Ubuntu 9.04.
> >>
> >> Best
> >> Volker van Nek
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It works!
> >
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > Thanks again
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
> > With more testing I found this
> > "
> > (%i4) factor(1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111);
> > (%o4) 317 6163 10271 307627 49172195536083790769
> > 3660574762725521461527140564875080461079917
> > (%i5) factor(1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111);
> > Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> >
> >
> > +: NIL is not a number
> >
> > Automatically continuing.
> > To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> > (%i6)
> >
> > "
> >
> > 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)
> >
> > this is:
> > (%i6)
> > 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])
> >
> > Would someone try this and see what they get please?
> >
> > Doug Stewart
> >
> >
> >
> >
After much more testing I have found that with Maxima 5.18.1 Clisp I had the problems described above, which were different than the problems that I hade with 5.13.x. I then change to 5.18.1 sbcl version then It finally works as expected.
The versions are from http://zeus.nyf.hu/~blahota/maxima/jaunty/ according to your Lisp-system
I found that if I totally removed Maxima and then installed from here I did not get the Launch Icon in "Education" But I finally got it working :-)
So the Clisp version factoring
factor(1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111);
> > (%o4) 317 6163 10271 307627 49172195536083790769
> > 3660574762725521461527140564875080461079917
twice in a row crashes every time on my machine.
Doug Stewart