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Package: maxima
Version: 5.22.1-9
Severity: important

float(linsolve(160=200/(1+x)^3,x));
float(linsolve((200/160)^(1/3)-1=x,x);

These two expressions should yield the same value (0.077something). The
second one yields the correct result, the first one gives the incorrect
result 1/12 (0.083333).


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Versions of packages maxima depends on:
ii  gnuplot-x11               4.4.0-1.1+b1   A command-line driven interactive 
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-11      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgmp3c2                 2:4.3.2+dfsg-1 Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline6              6.1-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.4.1-5      X11 client-side library

Versions of packages maxima recommends:
ii  maxima-share                  5.22.1-9   A computer algebra system -- extra
ii  tk8.4 [wish]                  8.4.19-4   Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
ii  tk8.5 [wish]                  8.5.8-1    Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 -

Versions of packages maxima suggests:
ii  maxima-doc                    5.22.1-9   A computer algebra system -- docum
pn  maxima-emacs                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  texmacs                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  xmaxima                       <none>     (no description available)

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