Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: There's a restriction on the second argument to scaleb in the spec, namely that scaleb should be in the range -2*(Emax + precision) to 2*(Emax + precision) inclusive.
This restriction seems entirely arbitrary and unnecessary to me. My guess is that it's there to ease implementation in low-level languages, but it makes little sense for the Python implementation. Here's a patch that removes this restriction on scaleb in the Python implementation, and skips the corresponding tests. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15411/scaleb.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7048> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
