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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, martin.panter, ned.deily, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2016-09-16.19:58:42
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> And it's still the case that I haven't found a case where its result isn't correctly rounded.

Here's one: :-)

>>> rootn(1 + 2**-52, 2)
1.0000000000000002

The correctly rounded result would be 1.0.
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