Re: [Axiom-developer] list bug

[Dylan Thurston]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:13:34PM -0400, root wrote:
> Camm,
> 
> Bill Page pointed me to an email (which I either never received or
> it never hit my long-term memory) from Juergen Weiss that found the
> root of the display problem. The LOG10 function in GCL returns 
> rounded values that are used in the output length computation
> (src/interp/i-output.boot.pamphlet, line 843).
> 
> The GCL results are:
> log10(100) ==> 2.0
> log10(1000) ==> 2.9999999999999996
> 
> we take the floor of the results as the length of the number
> giving (floor (log10 1000)) => 2 rather than 3. Patching the
> generated boot.clisp code and reloading it fixes the problem.
> For now I'll add a fudge factor into the boot code.

I do hope you will fix this correctly.  It is very wrong to be using a
floating point log to display integers.

Peace,
        Dylan

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