[Ecls-list] Bug in ~G FORMAT?

Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll lisp at arrakis.es
Wed Mar 16 05:28:25 UTC 2005


Goffioul Michael wrote:

>>(format t "~G" most-positive-long-float)
>>    
>>
>Not a number.
>Broken at FORMAT.
>
>Is this a bug?
>
Yes. I have fixed it. The problem was that (EXPT 10.0l0 308) failed 
since the routine computed too many powers and in particular 10^512, 
which was afterwards discarded.

Juanjo




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