Re: [Maxima-discuss] float(exp(10000)) works, but float(exp(10000/3)) doesn't

[Jaime V. <vi...@fe...>]

On 26-01-2016 18:11, Raymond Toy wrote:
>      >> The third one gives an error.
>      Richard> I think this one fails because exp(10000.0)  overflows  before float()
>      Richard> sees it.
>      Richard> Not a bug?
>
> I agree. It's not a bug because you're explicitly asking for
> exp(10000.0).  But perhaps those in favor of returning a bigfloat in
> the other cases will see this a a bug too.
And this also looks odd:

(%i3) float(exp(10000.));
(%o3)                 8.806818225658306b4342
(%i4) float(exp(10000.0));

float: floating point overflow converting 8.806818225662922b4342
  -- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);

Jaime