[Maxima] "fastfib" in the gf package faster than "fib"

[Robert Dodier]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Zach <elzacho at gmail.com> wrote:

> But, floating point calculations is not what Maxima is for, so of course
> this is completely off topic.  Just very cool to me.

Disagreed. Maxima is for numerical calculations (to the extent
that it is "for" anything). The combination of symbolic and numerical
processing is especially attractive --- essentially the symbolic stuff
opens the door for automatic construction of a program which then
grinds out the numerical results.

FWIW

Robert Dodier