Message349180
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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2019-08-07 17:40:20 | tim.peters | set | recipients:
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