[Maxima-commits] Maxima, A Computer Algebra System branch master updated. branch-5_27-base-72-g5287650



On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:

> Right...a possible fix is to delete
>
>  ((= b (truncate b))
>    (expt a (truncate b)))
>
> from (defmethod expt ((a numeric) (b cl:number)).
>
>
Oops.  I did that just recently.  I'll need to look at the code to see why
that's happening.  It should be using a different method to compute expt in
that case which is more accurate.

Ray