Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?

• Subject: Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?
• From: Jaime Villate
• Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:41:15 +0000

On 11/29/2012 12:22 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>      Steve> (1+ most-positive-fixnum)
>      Steve> -536870912
>
> xemacs:
>
> (1+ most-positive-fixnum)
> 4611686018427387904
>
> I guess that means xemacs has a 62-bit fixnum. (This is on a 64-bit
> machine.)
This is what I get in Emacs 23 on a 64-bit CPU:

(1+ most-positive-fixnum)

-2305843009213693952

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