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Re: [Maxima-discuss] Careful arithmetic ... was Re: +-Inf and NaN
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Camm Maguire |
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Re: [Maxima-discuss] Careful arithmetic ... was Re: +-Inf and NaN |
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Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:47:49 -0500 |
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Greetings!
Raymond Toy <toy.raymond@gmail.com> writes:
> Is this the current development version of gcl?
Yes.
> What's the difference between continuing and aborting here? Does this
> mean that if I had done (* 10 (expt 2d0 100000)) and selected the
> continue restart, I would have gotten #<inf>?
Yes. And the trap disabled until you reenable it thereafter.
> If I had selected option 2, would the traps be preserved?
Yes.
In the 2.6 series, you first have to (setq si::*print-nans* t) (which is
being eliminated), and you do not have the continue restart as an option.
Take care,
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Camm Maguire camm@maguirefamily.org
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