On 2012-02-14 09:51:28 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 02/13/2012 08:00 PM, Geert Bosch wrote: > > GNU Linux is quite good, but has issues with the "pow" function for > > large exponents, even in current versions > > Really? Even on 64-bit? I know this is a problem for the 32-bit > legacy architecture, but I thought the 64-bit pow() was OK.
According to http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=706 the 32-bit pow() can be completely wrong, and the 64-bit pow() is just very inaccurate. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
