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plot2d with logy should allow very large bfloats #4181

Open rtoy opened 4 months ago

rtoy commented 4 months ago

Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-09 19:33:35 Created by macrakis on 2021-06-03 22:40:19 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/3791


plot2d(10.0b0^n,[n,0,400],logy) gives floating point overflows and so truncates the y values. Since it's on a logarithmic y scale, it would be nice if it calculated the logarithm before converting to a float. Similarly for plot2d(10^n,[n,0,400b0],logy).

Motivation: make it easy to handle very big numbers in plotting.

Obviously not a high priority.