From owner-freebsd-numerics@freebsd.org Thu May 9 17:30:59 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-numerics@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84DD1588BFE for ; Thu, 9 May 2019 17:30:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB4271642 for ; Thu, 9 May 2019 17:30:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 2D8BF1588BFD; Thu, 9 May 2019 17:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: numerics@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1C31588BFC for ; Thu, 9 May 2019 17:30:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from mxrelay.ysv.freebsd.org (mxrelay.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mxrelay.ysv.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE2707163B for ; Thu, 9 May 2019 17:30:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mxrelay.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED3F316BDE for ; Thu, 9 May 2019 17:30:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x49HUvmP073123 for ; Thu, 9 May 2019 17:30:57 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: (from www@localhost) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id x49HUvPF073122 for numerics@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 9 May 2019 17:30:57 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: kenobi.freebsd.org: www set sender to bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org using -f From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: numerics@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 237800] pow(3) returns inaccurate results Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 17:30:58 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: misc X-Bugzilla-Version: CURRENT X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Many People X-Bugzilla-Who: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu X-Bugzilla-Status: Open X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: numerics@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-numerics@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of high quality implementation of libm functions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 17:31:00 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D237800 --- Comment #8 from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu --- (In reply to Karl Williamson from comment #6) Karl, Thanks for the follow-up. FreeBSD setting up bugzilla to kill the ability to reply via email is rather dumb IMHO. To the matter at hand, checking for equality between computed floating point values is not a Good Thing. One normally checks either the ULP as I have done, or a relative error such as "abs(x - y) / abs(x)" is less than some tiny value. It seems that whomever is developing the perl module should read Goldberg's paper. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=