New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com>:
The three most popular logarithm bases are 10, e, and 2. The math library has direct function calls for the first two but not the latter which is important in informatics. Since a direct call can use a custom algorithm or native hardware support (such as the FLDLN2 fpu instruction), it provides better speed and accuracy than our existing math.log(x, 2) option. ---------- assignee: mark.dickinson messages: 134159 nosy: mark.dickinson, rhettinger priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add C99's log2() function to the math library type: feature request versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11888> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
