00:01 -!- damiaan(n=user@kotnet-150.kulnet.kuleuven.be) has joined #maxima 00:02 is there a way to make maxima continue a loop after an error (like division by zero) happened? 00:19 also, (how) can i control the precision of numbers in maxima? how does the standard precision compare to other packages? I'm asking because i get quite different results with maxima compared to R (statistical software) when evaluating complex expressions. 00:41 damiaan: You can catch errors in maxima. Somehow. Look up "catch" maybe? 00:42 damiaan: By default numbers are exact, except if you do floating-point. Then it's double-precision IEEE. But you can also have bfloat numbers with user-defined precision. Set fpprec to the number of signficant digits you want. 00:43 many thanks 00:45 -!- Prax01D(n=Prax01D@tor58-7-82-250.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net) has joined #maxima 00:45 i've set fpprec to 50 or even 500 just to see whether it affects my results; i was quite surprised to see it does not seem to affect computing time, is that normal? 01:51 damiaan: If you result doesn't say something like 1.2b3 then you didn't use big floats. 01:59 ah, thanks, i'll look into it. going to get some sleep. thanks again 06:41 -!- Prax01D(n=Prax01D@tor58-23b-94-103.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net) has joined #maxima 12:46 -!- Prax01D(n=Prax01D@149.99.89.54) has joined #maxima 13:38 -!- HaraldG(n=rldprog@chello080108070152.13.11.univie.teleweb.at) has joined #maxima 14:37 -!- rtoy_(n=chatzill@user-0c8hpk0.cable.mindspring.com) has joined #maxima 16:20 -!- trebor_dki(n=user@mail.dki.tu-darmstadt.de) has joined #maxima 16:37 -!- scorpi_(n=scorpi@164.15.10.67) has joined #maxima 16:38 -!- HaraldG(n=rldprog@chello080108070152.13.11.univie.teleweb.at) has joined #maxima 16:58 -!- trebor_dki(n=user@mail.dki.tu-darmstadt.de) has left #maxima 18:34 -!- Prax01D(n=Prax01D@tor58-23b-94-41.dynamic.rogerstelecom.net) has joined #maxima