#15789: Translation from Maxima seems to fail on some big big numbers
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       Reporter:  kcrisman    |        Owner:
           Type:  defect      |       Status:  new
       Priority:  major       |    Milestone:  sage-6.2
      Component:  interfaces  |   Resolution:
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Comment (by nbruin):

 Does this help?
 {{{
 sage: E=maxima_calculus('rk(6+y-y^2,y,-4,[t,0,.5,.1])')
 sage: E.ecl()
 <ECL: ((MLIST SIMP) ((MLIST SIMP) 0 -4) ((MLIST SIMP) 0.1
 -6.440263085506939)
  ((MLIST SIMP) 0.2 -18.436086375306434)
  ((MLIST SIMP) 0.30000000000000004 -9638.988518207414)
  ((MLIST SIMP) 0.4 -2.299077184715307e44)
  ((MLIST SIMP) 0.5 #.ext::double-float-negative-infinity))>
 }}}
 it seems to be ECL's own IEEE negative infinity, which seems to get
 handled a little strange by maxima.

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