On Jul 8, 2:59 pm, Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> wrote: > pow() is trickier. Exact results have to be weeded out before > attempting the correction loop for correct rounding, and this is > complicated. > > For example, in decimal this expression takes a long time (in cdecimal > the power function is not correctly rounded): > > Decimal('100.0') ** Decimal('-557.71e-742888888')
Hmm. So it does. Luckily, this particular problem is easy to deal with. Though I dare say that you have more up your sleeve. :)? -- Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list