How to make Maxima display more digits

Question

How do you make Maxima print out all the digits it possibly can?

For example I entered 256^(256); and maxima returned 323170060713110073007148766886[557 digits]952148193555853611059596230656. I want it to print all the 557 digits in between, how do I go about doing that?

Answer 1

If you are using wxMaxima, change 2D-display in the Maxima entry of the menu to ascii or none. You can obtain the same result with set_display('ascii)$ or set_display('none)$