forwarded 707596 maxima at math.utexas.edu
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Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at olin.edu> writes:
> Package: maxima
> Version: 5.30.0-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Here's a transcript:
>
> $ maxima
>
> Maxima 5.30.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (a.k.a. GCL)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
> (%i1) 1000!^0.01;
> (%o1) i.nfE+142498684
>
> I think that it should have instead given a reasonable answer (around
> 10^26) or complained that the floating-point range got overflowed by
> 1000!.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages maxima depends on:
> ii gnuplot-x11 4.6.0-8
> ii libc6 2.13-38
> ii libgmp10 2:5.0.5+dfsg-2
> ii libreadline6 6.2+dfsg-0.1
> ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
>
> Versions of packages maxima recommends:
> iu maxima-share 5.30.0-4
>
> Versions of packages maxima suggests:
> iu maxima-doc 5.30.0-4
> iu maxima-emacs 5.30.0-4
> pn texmacs <none>
> ii tk8.5 [wish] 8.5.11-2
> pn xmaxima <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>
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