[Maxima] bug in rational arithmetic ?

Raymond Toy raymond.toy at ericsson.com
Thu Aug 9 10:22:31 CDT 2007


Richard Fateman wrote:
> 
> bfloat(2.1d0) should be
> 
> 2.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625b0
> 

Should we make this change?  I think we should.  As mentioned, it does 
break one test case, but that wasn't really right either, due to 
roundoff issues.

Ray


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