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Author tim.peters
Recipients PedanticHacker, Stefan Pochmann, mark.dickinson, mcognetta, pablogsal, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2021-12-20.19:44:50
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Just curious about why the focus on the newer exp2 and log2? Logs are logs, and the "natural" `exp()` and `log()` should work just as well. On Windows, exp2() is particularly poor for now (I've seen dozens of cases of errors over 2 ulp, with exp2(x) very much worse than the Windows pow(2, x)).
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2021-12-20 19:44:50tim.peterssetrecipients: + tim.peters, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, serhiy.storchaka, PedanticHacker, mcognetta, Stefan Pochmann, pablogsal
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