------- Comment #9 from eli dot osherovich at gmail dot com 2010-03-19 13:29 ------- (In reply to comment #7) > Subject: Re: sinl is not computed correctly > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, bangerth at gmail dot com wrote: > > > Also: 1e22 is not exactly representable as a floating point number. By > > 5**22 is smaller than 2**53, so 1e22 (= 5**22 * 2**22) *is* exactly > representable in double or formats with more bits than double. > 1e22 is not representable exactly in the binary format. Not because of its magnitude, just because most numbers cannot be represented exactly in computers.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43405
