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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, martin.panter, ned.deily, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2016-09-16.19:35:30
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> Mark, the code I showed in roots.py is somewhat more accurate and highly significantly faster than the code you just posted.

Okay, fair enough. In that case, we still need a solution for computing rootn(x * 2**e) in the case where x*2**e itself overflows / underflows an IEEE 754 float.
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