From owner-freebsd-java Sat Mar 1 17:42:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9F437B401 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:42:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from a.smtp-out.sonic.net (a.smtp-out.sonic.net [208.201.224.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2984543FBD for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from milo@cyberlifelabs.com) Received: (qmail 7531 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2003 01:42:32 -0000 Received: from turbo.sonic.net (208.201.224.26) by a.smtp-out.sonic.net with SMTP; 2 Mar 2003 01:42:32 -0000 Received: from cyberlifelabs.com (adsl-64-142-14-252.sonic.net [64.142.14.252]) by turbo.sonic.net (8.11.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id h221gW803162 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:42:32 -0800 X-envelope-info: Message-ID: <3E616186.6030807@cyberlifelabs.com> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:42:30 -0800 From: Milo Hyson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20030120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Java Mailing List Subject: Bug ports/48825 -- Math.pow() broken in JDK 1.3.1 patchset 8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Math.pow() seems to be broken in patchset 8. Briefly, raising any positive number to any power (with very few exceptions) returns a zero. Running the same exact code on patchset 7 works fine. See the bug report for details. Unfortunately for us, we noticed this bug due to incorrect totals in our monthly billing cycle. We ended up under-billing by several thousands of dollars. At least we didn't over-bill. :) -- Milo Hyson CyberLife Labs P.S. The moral of this story is always have an auditing team check your billing reports. They saved our ass this time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message