float(sin(2^2048))?

• Subject: float(sin(2^2048))?
• From: R Fateman
• Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:02:05 -0700

two separate issues, how to deal with IEEE Nan, Inf  when you also have 
Maxima und, inf, minf.

and  how to get some requested precision in a result.
The latter is not always computable. e.g. if the answer is zero but you 
fail to compute it, exactly.

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