rtest14, closeto, and ecl (Was Re: Maxima 5.23.1 tagged)
Subject: rtest14, closeto, and ecl (Was Re: Maxima 5.23.1 tagged)
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:45:02 -0500
On 1/18/11 9:43 PM, Barton Willis wrote:
> -----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.
>
>
No problem with using something else, but this example strikes me as a
serious issue. But maybe it's a bug in ecl. I don't know and it's hard
to tell.
Ray