On Mar 12, 2:54 pm, Mike Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maxima 5.17posthttp://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp SBCL 1.0.18.debian
> 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) limit(2*9.81*(t^2-1)/(t-1),t,1);
> (%o1)                          39.2400016784668

OK, that's good news, however it appears that 9.81
has been parsed as a single-precision float (to guess
by the number of correct digits in the result).
Maxima is supposed to read floats as double precision.
What does :lisp *read-default-float-format* report?

Thanks for your help,

Robert Dodier

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