[Maxima] fpprintprec

[Raymond Toy]

Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com
> <mailto:raymond.toy at ericsson.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>     > That is not the bad case that was reported (though it is another
>     bad case).
> 
>     Also, should we round the printed result?
> 
>     fpprec:16;
>     fpprintprec:4;
>     1.56789b0 -> 1.567b0
> 
> 
> Yes, the correct result here would be 1.568b0.

Hmm.  That's not so easy with the current algorithm because the number
has already been converted to a list of individual digits.  Doing the
example above is easy, but not so easy for something like 1.999999b0.

This will have to wait for another day.

Ray