error adding 0.1

• Subject: error adding 0.1
• From: Antonio Lapira
• Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:20:12 +0000 (GMT)

If I try to do:
(%i10) 1000!+1;
it works, while if I try this, I get an error message, 

(%i10) 1000!+0.1;

Maxima encountered a Lisp error:

 Error in PROGN [or a callee]: Can't print a non-number.

Automatically continuing.
To enable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.

why?

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