This is now #11643, http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11643.

On Aug 1, 4:25 pm, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote:
> On Aug 1, 1:42 pm, Eviatar <eviatarb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Oh, I just assumed the interface with Maxima would maintain precision.
>
> It could. Maxima does have a notion of multiprecision floats. They are
> base 2, so interfacing with MPFR should be a cinch. Especially with
> lib_maxima, translating MPFR to maxima multiprec and vv. should be a
> matter of a couple of lines.
>
> I don't know how many routines in Maxima work in a sensible way with
> multiprec floats.

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