Re: [Maxima-discuss] Problem with bfloat

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

On 2014-08-31, Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...> wrote:

> I didn't have any bfloat issues when trying to solve this with cmucl and a
> very recent git version of maxima. I don't see why solve should use bfloats
> since it's supposed to be doing a symbolic solution.

The error is in SIGN1, not solve itself -- there is some code to
attempt a floating or bigfloat evaluation under some circumstances.
I haven't tried to understand the rationale. Maybe you can take a
look at it.

best

Robert Dodier