Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> If the error is 1 ulp or more for a basic function (like log) on a
> reasonable  non-pathological input (like 3.0), I would consider that
> an upstream bug.

Quite a few implementations only provide accuracies of 3-4 ulp for speed
reasons (it may make it possible to use double precision internally for
intermediate operations that would otherwise require some kind of
extended precision).

-- 
Marc

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