Bug in numerical evaluation of exp

• Subject: Bug in numerical evaluation of exp
• From: Raymond Toy
• Date: 25 Apr 2002 15:03:06 -0400

A numerical evaluation bug:

(C10) exp(5);

					5
(D10) 				      %E
(C11) ev(%,numer);

(D11) 				   148.41316
(C12) exp(5.0);

(D12) 			       148.4131591025766

I think D11 should produce an answer like D12.

Ray

P.S.  Should bugs be reported on the sourceforge site or here or both?

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