Re: [Maxima-discuss] e, pi, gamma, log(2)

[Richard F. <fa...@be...>]

On 9/21/2014 12:59 AM, Jan Hendrik Mueller wrote:
> Maybe I overlooked that: What was the "old" way maxima computed e and pi?
> Is there a possibility to look at these codes for non developers?
> bw
> Jan
You can download the current source code and look at the file float.lisp

Or you can presumably download the source code for just float.lisp

https://github.com/andrejv/maxima/tree/master/src

click on float.lisp

The code in float.lisp was originally written by me (RJF), circa 1974 
but has been massively
rewritten and extended by others, esp. Ray Toy.  But others too.

(  In spite of the appearance of the copyright by Bill Schelter (1984, 
1987),
that's just what he did to all the source files when he got them from 
the Dept of Energy library.
  I think he made no significant changed to float.lisp)