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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Michel Gosse wrote:

> Hello
> 
> With texmacs 1.0.1.10 and maxima 5.9, the answer for
> 0.04*0.02 is 8.000000000004 10^-4
> However, maxima gives the good answer in a shell.
1. Why do you think the answer is wrong? Seems OK for the product of 
single-precision floats...

2. I cannot reproduce it with clisp-based maxima 5.9, I get

8.0 10^{-4}

3. If you use command-line maxima, what do you get from

tex(0.04*0.02);

?

Andrey