[Maxima] strange behaviour with simple decimals

[Jay Belanger]

"Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
...
> Examples can be concocted by
>  computing a number that is not representable in decimal float, like 1/3.

Oh; yes, of course.

> A very thorough and amusing article concerning arithmetic, computer and
> calculator, is
> Kahan's Mathematics Written in Sand

Thanks for the link; I'm downloading it now.

Jay