Re-implementing R in Maxima



On 10/31/11 11:42 AM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 13:38, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com
> <mailto:toy.raymond at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I also notice that ratepsilon is still 2e-8, even though maxima
>     has been using double precision for years (decades?) now.
>
>
> Argh!  I thought we'd agreed multiple times (starting at least as long
> ago as 2005) that ratepsilon should be much smaller, say
> 2.0e-15 (about 9 ulps).  This is plenty of slop for returning "nice"
> rationals in the face of rounding error.
>
It's been finally changed to 2d-15, after all these years.

No problems with the testsuite, FWIW.

Ray