[Maxima] "Simpler" bigfloat and complex bigfloat arithmetic

[Raymond Toy]

Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 1/2/09, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Actually, I was hoping it might be suitable for putting in src.
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> I'd rather put it in src also. I think it should be available to core functions.
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I'll do that soon.
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>>  With NUMERIC (I open for a different package name),
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> NUMERIC suggests stuff like Newton's method, quadrature, etc....
> Maybe ARITHMETIC instead? I guess it's not much of an improvement.
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ARITHMETIC is ok, but we do more than just arithmetic.  I could just
call it the BIGFLOAT package, which is kind of what it is, except that
float.lisp is the core implementation.

I think I'll just checkin what I have and we can change the package name
later.

Ray