Re: [Maxima-discuss] More package problems

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2014-06-22, Mike Valenzuela <mic...@gm...> wrote:

> Also the only thing I did change was the print statements. Thats why it was
> crashing on me because I was using an iprint > 0.

OK, I've tried the patch, seems to mostly work as expected, but for
some problems I get stuff like:

  FP2SINGLE: floating point overflow converting 3.43405964187283b-35 to float.

Can you avoid coercion to ordinary floats and arrange for bigfloats to
be formatted as such? E.g. to get a string representation for a bigfloat, try:

  (symbol-name (maknam (fpformat <some-bigfloat>)))

We have to do that, right? because bigfloats have a range larger than
any float type.

best

Robert Dodier