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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients PedanticHacker, Stefan Pochmann, mark.dickinson, mcognetta, pablogsal, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2021-12-20.11:36:16
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factorial(49) has 163 significant binary digits. It cannot be represented in floating-point without losses. And C functions log2() and exp2() can add additional errors, depending on platform. We rely on the assumption that all errors will be compensated, but there are no guaranties of this.
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2021-12-20 11:36:16serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, PedanticHacker, mcognetta, Stefan Pochmann, pablogsal
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