biggest integer in Maxima



On 2/27/2012 8:31 AM, Olivier Drolet wrote:
> Does Maxima support Computable Reals?
You mean like
http://www.haible.de/bruno/MichaelStoll/reals.html  ?

You could just read that in to a Maxima system, though it
would probably be simpler to just use it from Lisp.  It would not
play nicely with the usual Maxima data.


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> On 2012-02-27, at 11:17 , Stavros Macrakis wrote:
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>> Maxima supports integers of arbitrary size, limited only by machine
>> memory.  Of course, some calculations will be slow on large integers:
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I suppose that a particular implementation of Common Lisp may have a 
biggest explicit integer
that is less than the machine memory.