computing expontential as repeated multiplication for small integer exponent
Subject: computing expontential as repeated multiplication for small integer exponent
From: Daniel Lakeland
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:14:18 -0700
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:08:27AM -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:
> 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.
I think that's the right way to go. Thanks for working on the lsquares
and find_root related work that led to this problem in the first
place.
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Daniel Lakeland
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