computing expontential as repeated multiplication for small integer exponent
Subject: computing expontential as repeated multiplication for small integer exponent
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:08:27 -0600
On 7/30/07, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> I think rtest8 #69 shouldn't expect exactly the same result. We should
> add a fuzz factor, like in some of the other tests for approximately equal.
I;m going to drop this issue for the moment.
I'm going to work around it by making the tolerance in the floating
point approximate equality test a user-visible variable
and assigning that variable a larger value for some tests.
best
Robert