Mark Dickinson added the comment: > - if y**n == x, return y;
Here's the problem, though: you're using the libm pow again in this test, so the result of this being True doesn't give tight information about how close y is to the nth root of x (and the test result may well differ from platform to platform). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27761> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com