Hi,
It seems like there is a bit of support in maxima for
lisp ratios, although not much. Here is a patch that
allows ratios to work with bfloats in many instances.
I tried to arrange it to have a low impact on efficiency.
The patch passed the test suite.
btw. In the original code, it looks like special constants are checked
before integers (I'm not certain). I did not change this, but maybe
it should be the other way around.
--John
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