how to get floating point results for taylor expansion?
Subject: how to get floating point results for taylor expansion?
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:33:28 -0700
On 7/15/12 6:08 PM, Peter Foelsche wrote:
> I've read quite a lot of the manual and experimented with a lot of options.
> But I'm unable to get normal floating point numbers or even numbers,
> which I can evaluate in visual C++ -- it tells me:
>
> 398987622351463743906497032561.0/768.0,e
> Error: constant too big
>
>
> Here is my maxima input:
>
> display2d:false$
> debugmode:true$
> rest1:(sin(omega*t)-v)^2 + (v - c)^2$
> ev(taylor(rest1, [t, v, c], [0, 0, 0], 8), omega=2*3.1415926*1e6);
In addition to what Victor said, it might make things look a lot simpler
if let omega = 2*%pi*10^6. Assuming that's what you really wanted and
not what you wrote.
Ray