On 2012-11-22, Antonio Lapira <antoniolapira at yahoo.it> wrote:
> (%i1) ibase:16$
> (%i2) ibase:2$
> (%i3) ibase:10$
> (%i4) ibase:2$
>
> assignment: cannot assign 2 to ibase
Maxima recognizes a trailing decimal point as indicating base 10, no
matter what the current value of ibase (this is a Lispism). In this case
you can enter ibase:2.; and it will set ibase to decimal 2.
best,
Robert Dodier