[Maxima] strange behaviour with simple decimals / Axiom

Richard Fateman fateman at cs.berkeley.edu
Wed Apr 11 19:54:35 CDT 2007


In Axiom version of  1/17/2005

1.4^2  comes out as 1.96

1.96 - 1.4^2  comes out as  0.7 E -20

I don't know if this counts as unexpected to a 5th grader, but does a 
5th grader even know about "E" scientific notation?







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