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Author tim.peters
Recipients Kevin Braun, SilentGhost, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, tim.peters, zach.ware
Date 2019-08-07.17:40:20
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Since this depends on the platform libm implementation of pow(), I'm closing this as "won't fix".

Steve, on the chance you're serious ;-) , there are implementations of the "constructive reals", which indeed act like infinite-precision floats.  But they tend to be very slow, and, e.g., testing two of them for equality is, in general, undecidable even in theory.  Here's one such:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/spigot/
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