On 11/10/2011 1:27 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> I don't recall any argument about something being on or off -- what do
> you have in mind?
>
> That mixed arithmetic between rationals and floats converts to floats?
> Yes, that is Maxima's behavior and as far as I know that can't be
> turned off -- so there is no 'default'. Unfortunately, constant
> expressions which are not literal rationals don't participate in this
> behavior: sqrt(5.0) - sqrt(5) does not simplify to 0. In my opinion,
> it should.
>
> -s
Interesting suggestion. It seems to me that it would make the following
2 commands synonymous:
%,numer
%+0.0
If so, maybe that tells us how your idea could be implemented.
Or might also warn us about unintended consequences. (Looks OK to me..)