Re: [Maxima-discuss] Careful arithmetic ... was Re: +-Inf and NaN

Greetings!

Raymond Toy <[email protected]> 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,
-- 
Camm Maguire			     		    [email protected]
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