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Re: mpz_sizeinbase
From: |
Kevin Ryde |
Subject: |
Re: mpz_sizeinbase |
Date: |
30 Mar 2001 08:55:27 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5 |
"Winfried Dreckmann" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> I get 0X1.34413509F79FDP-2 on my machine which I think explains the
> issue.
Yes.
> For some reason 2 of those 53 bits get lost.
Hmm. I think gcc might convert floats with atof, so maybe this is a
glibc problem, or maybe it depends on the rounding mode.
> But even with 53 bits of precision I see no proof that the original
> problem cannot occur.
You might be right there.
> The problem is that I want to use the function for a math library. So I
> want it to be correct or, at least, know the range in which it is
> correct.
Well it's supposed to be right all the time :), anything else is a
bug.