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

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

Raymond Toy <toy.raymond <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This is why I was opposed to this change. It is no longer possible to
> reason on what a program will do without knowing all the possible
> values.
> 
> I lost that battle.

For the record, there is a flag to turn off the float->bigfloat
promotion. It is named promote_float_to_bigfloat and its default
value is true.

If someone wants to change the default value to false,
I wouldn't mind. 

It's discouraging that there are bugs in the current implementation
but I think in essence it's an interesting idea so I would be dismayed
if the code were simply removed. I guess I could live with moving
the code to a branch -- I think it's only a few commits.

FWIW

Robert Dodier