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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients Aaron.Meurer, Nofar Schnider, abarry, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, lisroach, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, pitrou, python-dev, rhettinger, sbaird, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, stutzbach, tim.peters, veky, vstinner, waldir, zach.ware
Date 2016-08-12.09:20:04
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> To give just one example, on my machine, the result of `exp(500)` has an
> error of 0.42 ulps, while `math.e**500` gives an error of over 150 ulps.

How can it be? math.e**500 = math.exp(math.log(math.e)*500) and 
math.log(math.e) is 1.0.
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