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

[Gunter K. <gu...@pe...>]

Arrgh! This sounded like I were to advocate for changing ceiling() and
floor(), two functions I am actually happy with: They need more time
than I first expected. But they do so for a reason that more than
justifies this: They need this time in order to be able to return the
correct result.

Kind regards,

  Gunter.

On 28.01.2016 06:47, Gunter Königsmann wrote:
>> 1. Eh, not so fast?  Would anyone notice the machine float speed in the
>> blizzard
>> of other operations surrounding each operation?
> 
> I did recognize that ceiling() and floor() took - I think it was
> actually milliseconds - on my I7 computer and therefore contacted the
> mailing list after trying to apply floor() to 100 lists that were a
> million elements long.
> 
> Actually the overhead maxima normally imposes on complicated operations
> currently under normal circumstances tends to be surprisingly low so
> maxima currently is up to big numerical tasks.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
>     Gunter.
> 
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