Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: The only issue with subnormals is that a simple relative error test is usually inappropriate. For example, on an IEEE 754 machine 2**-1073 should almost always be considered a good approximation to 2**-1074, since the two floats are adjacent; but the relative error here is 100%! But I see that in the code you linked you have a combination of a relative error and absolute error tests, so this isn't a problem.
There's something similar to your code in the Python tests: see function 'almostEqualF' in Lib/test/test_cmath.py. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6675> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
