[Maxima] proposal to cut out romberg and quanc8 functions

[Michel Van den Bergh]

>
> I'm not convinced. I don't want to tell people that they should use a
> method known to be inferior. Bigfloat arithmetic isn't much of an
> issue in numerical integration anyway; integration errors are
> typically several orders of magnitude larger than the floating point epsilon.
Well if romberg can do numerical integration with arbitrary precision
then that is a feature
of maxima that should not be discarded lightly I think. There are many
packages to do
numerical integration, but perhaps not as many that can work with
arbitrary precision.

Michel