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Re: [Gcl-devel] [Maxima] Stable Maxima version on Gentoo
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Raymond Toy |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] [Maxima] Stable Maxima version on Gentoo |
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Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:36:54 -0700 |
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>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
Camm> Greetings!
Camm> "Stewart W. Wilson" <address@hidden> writes:
>> The fix does not seem to be exactly trivial. Please see the attached
>> paper by Steele and White from 1990.
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Camm> Thanks so much for this reference!
Camm> Unfortunately, using up to forty 32bit words in bignum arithmetic to
Camm> print out floats looks prohibitively expensive, although the algorithm
Camm> does appear to work nicely, at least when coded in lisp.
FWIW, cmucl has a lisp implementation of Dybvig's float printer.
Perhaps that will work for you?
Ray