[Maxima] Strangeness in minf and -inf

Richard Hennessy rvh2007 at comcast.net
Thu Sep 18 10:16:35 CDT 2008


Try

(%i5) min(-inf,minf);
(%o5) -inf
(%i6) max(-inf,minf);
The sign of und is undefined -- an error.  
To debug this try debugmode(true)

this seems to me that the answer %o6 should be -inf (just to be consistent with min), not an error.

Rich



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