Vincent Lefevre <vincent+...@vinc17.org> writes: > Wrong. 53 bits of precision. And 10^22 is the last power of 10 > exactly representable in double precision (FYI, this example has > been chosen because of this property).
But it is indistinguishable from 10^22+pi. So both -0.8522008497671888 and 0.8522008497671888 are correct results, or anything inbetween. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."