Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Applied further tweaks in r85120: for an integer n, log(n) is now computed as log(float(n)), provided only that n is small enough to be converted to a float without overflow. This puts log on a more equal footing with all the other math module functions, and satisfies the (reasonable, IMO) expectation that log(n) == log(float(n)) for small integers n.
As a nice side-effect, this change guarantees that on a machine where log10 has reasonable accuracy (e.g., accurate to within 0.9 ulps or so), log10(10**n)==n for any nonnegative integer n such that 10**n is within the range of a double. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9959> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
