>>>>> "Ether" == Ether Jones <maxima at etherjones.us> writes:
Ether> when I run this script:
Ether> kil l(all)$
Ether> fpprec:32$
Ether> float2bf:false$
Ether> y: x/sin(x)-5281/5280$
Ether> bf_find_root(y,x,1/100,4/100);
Ether> I get several of these warnings:
Ether> bfloat: converting float 0.10000000000000001 to bigfloat.
Ether> Is there a way to format the problem so that I get true bigfloat precision?
You should be getting true bigfloat precision. I'm guessing you're
using a pretty old version of Maxima. I'm pretty sure those warnings
were removed a long time ago, and they don't occur with the current
git version.
Ray