floating point overflow for float(1/gamma(-536/3))
Subject: floating point overflow for float(1/gamma(-536/3))
From: Barton Willis
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:42:45 -0500
By the way: with GCL Maxima 5.22.0:
(%i190) x : float(1/gamma(-536/3));
(%o190) -1..#INF00e+000*10^000E+6924912
(%i191) is(x = x + 1);
(%o191) true
(%i192) 1/x;
(%o192) 0.0
Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.6-dev-r14122M-trunk gives a Lisp error for float(1/gamma(-536/3)).
--Barton