Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Note that the exact values of `1.7**i` don't matter here - some sloppiness in the `pow` results should not cause a test failure. The key point is that under fairly mild assumptions about IEEE 754 conformance, the subtractions `1.7**(i+1) - 1.7**i` are always performed exactly, thanks to Sterbenz's lemma. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38992> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
