Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 17:30:58 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: numerics@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 237800] pow(3) returns inaccurate results Message-ID: <bug-237800-18636-aCwhUUD4lO@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-237800-18636@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-237800-18636@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D237800 --- Comment #8 from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu --- (In reply to Karl Williamson from comment #6) Karl, Thanks for the follow-up. FreeBSD setting up bugzilla to kill the ability to reply via email is rather dumb IMHO. To the matter at hand, checking for equality between computed floating point values is not a Good Thing. One normally checks either the ULP as I have done, or a relative error such as "abs(x - y) / abs(x)" is less than some tiny value. It seems that whomever is developing the perl module should read Goldberg's paper. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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