#12586: [ARM] Maxima has a strange numerical precision issue
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Reporter: Snark | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: porting | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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The following doctest fails:
{{{
File
"/home/jpuydt/sage-5.0.beta5/devel/sage/sage/interfaces/maxima_abstract.py",
line 1595:
sage: float(maxima("1.7e+17"))
Expected: 1.7e+17
Got:
1.6999999999999997e+17
}}}
I checked the problem is present in "./sage -maxima", and reported
[https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3494716&group_id=4933&atid=104933
upstream].
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