14.10.6 Miscellaneous

Obtaining digits of $ \pi$ :
sage: maxima.eval('fpprec : 100')
'100'
sage: maxima(pi).bfloat()
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062
86208998628034825342117068b0

Defining functions in maxima:

sage: maxima.eval('fun[a] := a^2')
'fun[a]:=a^2'
sage: maxima('fun[10]')
100

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