RE : crazy run-time fluctuations (mostly super-slow) -- a bit more data
Subject: RE : crazy run-time fluctuations (mostly super-slow) -- a bit more data
From: Rupert Swarbrick
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:46:02 +0100
Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> writes:
> Not even
>
> (%i1) :lisp(random-state-p random-state)
>
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>
> The variable RANDOM-STATE is unbound.
>
> works?
I haven't tried to do anything useful with this, but special variables
like this in Lisp tend to have names of the form *foo*. In particular:
(%i1) :lisp (random-state-p *random-state*)
T
Rupert
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