Re: [Maxima-discuss] rkf45 share

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

On 2017-01-18, Michel Talon <ta...@lp...> wrote:

> Well all those rationals have been computed as double floats in 
> rkf45.mac which is a good thing so that everything is computed as double 
> float by contagion. Otherwise if the function is given in terms of 
> rationals maxima would compute evertything to rationals and it would be 
> terrible.

Well, that's true, but it seems preferable to put in the constants as
float(mmm/nnn) instead of a literal float value -- that makes it easier
to check the values against published references.

best

Robert Dodier