biggest integer in Maxima



Does Maxima support Computable Reals?


On 2012-02-27, at 11:17 , Stavros Macrakis wrote:

> Maxima supports integers of arbitrary size, limited only by machine
> memory.  Of course, some calculations will be slow on large integers:
> 
> factor(10^100 - 9 ^ 100) =>
> 11*19*31*41*101*181*241*401*761*1321*1901*3701*7541*259001*1912601*3438451*1363017301*48873277451
>         *875145743369801*4023238425162001
> (takes 2.6 secs on my machine -- times go up rapidly with larger numbers)
> 
> though others will be fast:
> 
> mod(10^1000000,23456) =>  9504        (0.4 sec)
> 
> Maxima is perfectly happy to calculate (say) 10^1000000, but of course
> the printout is rather long....
> 
> Maxima can also calculate with arbitrary-precision decimals -- though
> you must specify the precision in advance:
> 
> fpprec: 200$   <<< set precision to 200 decimal digits
> bfloat(sqrt(2)) =>
> 1.4142135623730950488016887242096980785696718753769480731766797379907324784621070388503875343276415727350138462309122970249248360558507372126441214970999358314132226659275055927557999505011527820605715b0
> 
>          -s
> 
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:52, Roman Plch <plch at math.muni.cz> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> what is the biggest integer we can use in Maxima (on 32 bit systems)?
>> How Maxima store integers?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> Roman
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