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