On 9/25/10 1:43 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Kostas, you must replace all of the ordinary floating point
> arithmetic with Maxima arithmetic.
> (There may be a way to get Lisp to call the appropriate
> arithmetic functions automatically but, if so, I don't know how
> to do that.)
>
> You can translate arithmetic as follows:
>
> Lisp Maxima
>
> + m+
> * m*
> - m-
> / m//
>
> > mgrp
> < not mgqp
> >= mgqp
> <= not mgrp
> = like
Another approach which might be simpler is to use the bigfloat package.
So + becomes bigfloat:+ and so on. But you will also need to call
bigfloat:to to convert maxima's bigfloat representation to a
bigfloat:bigfloat. And lastly, you need to call maxima:to to convert
the bigfloat:bigfloat representation back to something the rest of
maxima can understand.
The bigfloat package also understands Lisp floats, rationals, complexes,
and bigfloat reals and complexes. So once the code is converted to use
bigfloat, it can also be used for Lisp floats. At the expense of some
speed.
I might take a look later on at the code and convert it myself. Maxima
should have bigfloat versions of everything.
Ray