Bug#707596: maxima: 1000!^0.01 produces i.nfE+142498684
The problem is also present in the latest maxima (5.32.1-1): $ maxima Maxima 5.32.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.10 (a.k.a. GCL) ... (%i1) 1000!^0.01; (%o1)i.nfE+6166368 I am happy to report it upstream. Actually, I just did: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/2680/ -Sanjoy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#707596: maxima: 1000!^0.01 produces i.nfE+142498684
forwarded 707596 max...@math.utexas.edu thanks Sanjoy Mahajan san...@olin.edu writes: Package: maxima Version: 5.30.0-4 Severity: normal Here's a transcript: $ maxima Maxima 5.30.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (a.k.a. GCL) 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) 1000!^0.01; (%o1) i.nfE+142498684 I think that it should have instead given a reasonable answer (around 10^26) or complained that the floating-point range got overflowed by 1000!. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages maxima depends on: ii gnuplot-x11 4.6.0-8 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libgmp10 2:5.0.5+dfsg-2 ii libreadline6 6.2+dfsg-0.1 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 Versions of packages maxima recommends: iu maxima-share 5.30.0-4 Versions of packages maxima suggests: iu maxima-doc5.30.0-4 iu maxima-emacs 5.30.0-4 pn texmacs none ii tk8.5 [wish] 8.5.11-2 pn xmaxima none -- no debconf information -- Camm Maguirec...@maguirefamily.org == The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens. -- Baha'u'llah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#707596: maxima: 1000!^0.01 produces i.nfE+142498684
Package: maxima Version: 5.30.0-4 Severity: normal Here's a transcript: $ maxima Maxima 5.30.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.7 (a.k.a. GCL) 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) 1000!^0.01; (%o1) i.nfE+142498684 I think that it should have instead given a reasonable answer (around 10^26) or complained that the floating-point range got overflowed by 1000!. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages maxima depends on: ii gnuplot-x11 4.6.0-8 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libgmp10 2:5.0.5+dfsg-2 ii libreadline6 6.2+dfsg-0.1 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 Versions of packages maxima recommends: iu maxima-share 5.30.0-4 Versions of packages maxima suggests: iu maxima-doc5.30.0-4 iu maxima-emacs 5.30.0-4 pn texmacs none ii tk8.5 [wish] 8.5.11-2 pn xmaxima none -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
