From: Sam S. <sd...@gn...> - 2002-08-28 16:12:27
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> * In message <157...@ho...> > * On the subject of "Re: expt bug" > * Sent on Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:03:04 +0200 (CEST) > * Honorable Bruno Haible <ha...@il...> writes: > > But I could agree if you change the result from > #C(25.000002 4.3711393E-6) > to a less biased > #C(25.000002 0.0) > > Sam writes: > > please try the appended patch. > > The patch is wrong for above reasons. the patch optimizes the (expt -5.0 2.0) computation by computing (expt -5.0 2) instead (since they are mathematically identical). -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.palestine-central.com/links.html> To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions with extra cruft. |