Re: Fwd: [Maxima] still having plotting problem

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

On 3/17/12, Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> So it is annoying that the code, although paranoid about precision,
> is apparently not paranoid enough.

Yeah, my suggestion is to run the loop for a number of iterations
determined in advance, to avoid floating point problems as much
as possible. I've attached a patch -- hope it's useful.

> Does it do the same thing if you compile with optimization
> level -O0 ?

I dunno -- it's actually somebody else's system, the bug isn't
triggered on mine.

best,

Robert Dodier