[armedbear-devel] Fwd: How to compile and run Maxima with ABCL?

[Phuc Luoi]

I think even so. Just only 4 of 9,169 it is a very very small quote,
and even comes from floating point,
which is very different implemented.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-06-20, Phuc Luoi <phucluoi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Error found in /usr/local/share/maxima/5.27.0/tests/rtest16.mac, problem:
>> (393)
>> Errors found in /usr/local/share/maxima/5.27.0/tests/rtest_gamma.mac, problems:
>> (403 411 524)
>
> I believe these tests fail for some Lisp implementations because of
> differences in floating point functions. We (Maxima developers) don't
> have a good way to compensate for that. Typically someone just fudges
> the error tolerance from a very small number to a slightly larger small
> number.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
>
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