On 7/8/21 4:34 PM, newbie nullzwei wrote: > works, did similar for testing which algorithm could work, your sheet is a > little off as 2^53 is not represented as 0,5*2^54 but 1,0*2^53, the mantissa > has > to be normalized to [1 .. 2[ thus 0,5 is wrong, and once you do further > calculations with erroneous log / int results in col. B, C you run into wrong > exponent, wrong mantissa, both together seemingly correct result, but wrong > in > the details ... but it is on the right track ...
I have no idea what you're talking about. Here's a quote from the frexp() manpage: These functions return the normalized fraction. If the argument x is not zero, the normalized fraction is x times a power of two, and its absolute value is always in the range 1/2 (inclusive) to 1 (exclusive), that is, [0.5,1). So a mantissa of 0.5 is not wrong. A mantissa of 1.0 would be wrong. The spreadsheet does not make this mistake. Column I makes a specific check for this, so it couldn't go unnoticed. Columns B and C are preliminary intermediate results. The final results are in columns G and H. I was hoping you would notice the red boldface column headers. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list