On Sunday, May 4, 2014 6:53:06 AM UTC-4, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> I had a quick look: this isn't a bug - it's just the result of propagation of
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> the error in "partial" to "final".
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> In more detail: we've got a working precision of 2016 significant figures.
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> any small x, we
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:39:12 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:37:17 -0700, pleasedontspam wrote:
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> > from decimal import *
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> > getcontext().prec=2016
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> > one=Decimal(1)
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> > number=Decimal(
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:39:12 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:37:17 -0700, pleasedontspam wrote:
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> > from decimal import *
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> > getcontext().prec=2016
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> > one=Decimal(1)
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> > number=Decimal(
Hello,
I believe I found a bug in the Decimal library. The natural logarithm results
seem to be off in a certain range, as compared with Wolfram Alpha.
Here's an example:
from decimal import *
getcontext().prec=2016
one=Decimal(1)
number=Decimal('1e-1007')
partial=(one+number)/(one-number)
fin
