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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
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Subject: Re: Bit twiddling question
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:16:52PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2017-Mar-09 23:21:36 -0800, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >I have a partially written powl in my tree.  I'll probably finish
> >it someday.
> 
> Likewise.  Does anyone have any suggestions for test vectors?
> 

I never got to the interest part of powl, so haven't thought
to much about a general test vector.  My partial implmentation
has 19 special cases (ie, x or y = +-inf, 0,1) working, but
I stopped working it for x and y finite.


-- 
Steve
20161221 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbCHE-hONow