On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 02:00 am, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> That gave me this result almost instantaneously: >>> >>> 4503599761588224 >>> >>> which has been rounded up instead of down. I don't know if that counts >>> as sufficiently wrong? [...]
> Your example demonstrates that the "2**53 < M" assumption was wrong, > which is interesting. It sure is. You're right, of course, I hadn't noticed that Chris' M was approximately half 2**53. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
