Package: maxima
Version: 5.17.1-1
Severity: normal

The integral of the following positive function comes up negative:

(%i1) integrate(p^20*(1-p)^20, p, 0.8, 1);

`rat' replaced 0.2 by 1/5 = 0.2

`rat' replaced 0.8 by 4/5 = 0.8

`rat' replaced 0.2 by 1/5 = 0.2

`rat' replaced 1.7710272499979687E-13 by 1/5646440505086 = 
1.7710272499980396E-13
                                   2633588267
(%o1)                    - --------------------------
                           15956015588202429439359660


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages maxima depends on:
ii  gnuplot-x11             4.2.5-1          A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libc6                   2.9-12           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgmp3c2               2:4.2.4+dfsg-8.1 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.5-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5             5.7+20090516-1   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5            5.2-4            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.0-2        X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.2.1-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                 2:1.0.5-2        X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                2:1.0.4-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages maxima recommends:
ii  gv                            1:3.6.7-1  PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  maxima-share                  5.17.1-1   A computer algebra system -- extra

Versions of packages maxima suggests:
ii  maxima-doc                    5.17.1-1   A computer algebra system -- docum
pn  texmacs                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  tk8.4 [wish]                  8.4.19-3   Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
ii  tk8.5 [wish]                  8.5.7-1    Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 -

-- no debconf information



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

Reply via email to