rtest14, closeto, and ecl (Was Re: Maxima 5.23.1 tagged)
Subject: rtest14, closeto, and ecl (Was Re: Maxima 5.23.1 tagged)
From: Barton Willis
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:43:11 -0600
-----maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
>I?don't?really?understand?how?closeto?is?supposed?to?work.??When?abse?>=
>tol,?it's?supposed?to?return?abse.??Shouldn't?that?be?a?number,?not?some
>symbolic??expression???
Maybe float_approx_equal (defined in mload) provides a better way to do the
comparison. Or maybe not...I think I wrote float_approx_equal.
--bw