Re: [Axiom-developer] Output problem

[Mike Dewar]

This works fine in the last NAG version of Axiom, built using CCL.
Mike.

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:33:34AM -0400, Tim Daly wrote:
> Juergen,
> 
> 
> > there is a problem with the generation of output
> > (1) -> [ i**3 for i  in 1..10]
> > 
> >    (1)  [1,8,27,64,125,216,343,512,729,100]
> >                                                    Type: List 
> > PositiveInteger
> > 
> > If you trace |processInteractive| you can really see, that
> > it's an output problem.
> > 
> > I ran the test with the Linux distribution of axiom and the
> > Linux libraries on FreeBSD. So I think, it's an akcl, not
> > a FreeBSD problem. The bad output does not happen on
> > cmu cl. Probably a rounding problem (the output of 1001
> > is correct)
> 
> Nobody really needs numbers larger than 3 digits :-)
> 
> Curiously, if you do the loop [ i**3 for i  in 1..12] all of the
> other answers are right. 
> 
> The major difference between the CVS version of Axiom and the
> hand-built distribution is the algebra files. The hand-built
> version of the algebra is compiled using NAG's version of Axiom.
> The CVS version is built from the CVS sources. Both give the
> same wrong answer so it may be that the bug is in the output
> routine in the algebra code. 
> 
> Good catch. I'll put it on the known bugs list.
> 
> Tim Daly
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