Re: Fwd: [Maxima] still having plotting problem

[Yuriy K. <yu...@ma...>]

Robert Dodier wrote:
> 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.

BTW, I think there should be similar problem with minitics code below.
And, unlike `tics` case, I don't see any protection against infinite loop there.