[Gcl-devel] Re: scale-float bug in GCL (was Re: [Maxima] asin and acos wrong)

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for the heads up!

Fixed in both 2.6.1, and cvs head.  New binaries being built now for
upload.  Should appear on the temporary distribution site
(http://people.debian.org/~camm/gcl) shortly.

Take care,

James Amundson <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:23, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> > (lisp-implementation-version)
> > "GCL-2-5.2000000000000002"
> > 
> > (scale-float 1.0 -24)
> > 1.0
> 
> Thank you, Wolfgang. Here's what I see:
> 
> New: (prompt changed to %)
> 
> %(lisp-implementation-version)
> "GCL-2-6.0999999999999996"
> %(scale-float 1.0 -24)
> 1.0
> 
> Old:
> 
> %(lisp-implementation-version)
> "GCL-2-5.0"
> %(scale-float 1.0 -24)
> 5.9604644775390625E-8
> 
> So I stand corrected: the problem *is* a bug in GCL.
> 
> --Jim
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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