Cantors countable infinity?




On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jaime Villate wrote:

< On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 19:07 +0100, Leo Butler wrote:
< > Which version of Maxima are you running?
< > What build of clisp?
< > 
< > 
< > (%i1) build_info();
< > 
< > Maxima version: 5.20.1
< > Maxima build date: 14:56 4/9/2010
< > Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
< > Lisp implementation type: CLISP
< > Lisp implementation version: 2.44.1 (2008-02-23) (built 3427349244)
< > (memory 3479810177)
< > 
< > (%o1)
< > (%i2) 2^3^4^5;
< > Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
< > 
< > 
< > overflow during multiplication of large numbers
< > 
< > Automatically continuing.
< 
< With the same Clisp ans Maxima versions, Maxima also dies for me:
< 
< (%i1) build_info();
< 
< Maxima version: 5.20.1
< Maxima build date: 10:20 12/15/2009
< Host type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
< Lisp implementation type: CLISP
< Lisp implementation version: 2.44.1 (2008-02-23) (built 3436704610)
< (memory 3469861211)
 
Actually, the build_info is slightly different since the Host types
differ. Is this a 64 bit clisp issue?

bb: can you send us the output of build_info(), please.

Leo

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