[Maxima] changing floating point number input.. (was realroots...)

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

    Richard> putting MPFR into each lisp would be a pain in the butt.
    Richard> putting MPFR into ONE lisp (e.g., Allegro CL on Windows--
    Richard> which I've already done) uses non-ANSI CL features.

    Richard> Maybe someone more expert on the "universal" foreign function stuff can look
    Richard> at it.

I believe CFFI is supported by all the Lisp's we support, so, finally,
a unified interface to C code is possible for maxima.

Ray