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| From: | anonymous |
| Subject: | [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0 |
| Date: | Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:22:31 -0500 (EST) |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 |
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #55238 (project octave):
I think this is not a bug.
This is because 17^23 is larger than flintmax
while 17^12 and 17^11 are smaller than flintmax.
Therefore, 17^23 cannot be represented accurately by "double" type,
so the result of mod(17^23,55) has error.
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