Re: More efficient "dbl_raise"

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>But if I run this version of gnuplot on all.dem, the result is 
>>differences other than just the times and dates.  So which is the preferred 
>>result formulation?
> 
> 
> Hold on a bit, I may have overlooked a small change...

Yeah, changing the return value to

     if (exponent < 0)
	return (tics / power);
     else
	return (tics * power);

results in the same exact PostScript results for all.dem.  So there apparently 
is not consequence of

     if (exponent < 0)
         power = 1 / power;

in terms of precision.

Dan