gamma in the bigfloat package (was RE: equality testing in bigfloat package)
Subject: gamma in the bigfloat package (was RE: equality testing in bigfloat package)
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:48:14 -0700
>>>>> "Barton" == Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> writes:
>> Hmm. Is this gcl? I can't reproduce that with clisp or cmucl. BIGFLOAT::TO is supposed to return a double if the arg is a double.
>> Can you trace what bigfloat::%to is doing?
Barton> Yes, it was GCL. The bug seems somewhat inconsistent, but
Barton> I can get the bug in CCL too. I'll keep trying to find a
Barton> way to reproduce this result. Likely it's something flaky
Barton> in my code.
Ok. Can't get your example to fail in ccl either. Feel free to send
me a reproducible test case (with ccl). It shouldn't be too hard to
figure out.
Ray