[Maxima] bigfloat with maxima
Raymond Toy
raymond.toy at stericsson.com
Wed May 20 13:11:24 CDT 2009
Colin Cartade wrote:
> Unfortunately I only have maxima 5.13.0 and I can't use bfallroots.
> Since my polynomials are of degree 3 or 4, we have formulas for the
> solutions and I think I can use
>
> bfloat(solve(...));
>
>
Just remember that the symbolic result may not be a numerically stable
way to compute the floating-point roots. Use caution. Or extra digits.
Ray
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