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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
