On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Robert Dodier wrote:
< On 9/11/10, Mahdiyar Noorbala <noorbala at stanford.edu> wrote:
<
< > (%i1) log(1b-308),numer;
< > log: log(0) has been generated.
< > -- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);
<
< numer changes bigfloats to ordinary floats.
< 1b-308 is less than the smallest ordinary float,
< so it's converted to zero.
< If you want a bigfloat result, omit numer from the example above.
Robert, this was my original supposition. But in fact
the underlying lisp matters. Clisp gives the above output,
cmucl gives the output in my previous message.
Leo
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