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Author skrah
Recipients andrea.bergamini, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka, skrah
Date 2012-07-24.12:38:19
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I think Serhiy has already explained that 43**10 is too large
to be represented exactly in 53-bit floating point arithmetic.

The math module wraps the floating point functions from the
C standard:

"It provides access to the mathematical functions defined by the C standard."

"Except when explicitly noted otherwise, all return values are floats."


So there's no bug, and the documentation looks fine to me, too.
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2012-07-24 12:38:20skrahsetrecipients: + skrah, mark.dickinson, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka, andrea.bergamini
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