From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada83 Exponentiation HELP !!!
Date: 1999/12/19
Date: 1999-12-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hiir$f73$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3855ab32.0@news.pacifier.com
In article <3855ab32.0@news.pacifier.com>,
"DuckE" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com> wrote:
> It's been years since I've dealt with evaluating things like
this, but as I
> recall 6^(1.3) is equivalent to:
>
> Exp( 1.3 * Log( 6 ) )
>
> Don't quote me on this, but it's somehting like that.
AAARGH! A classical horrible algorithm, designed to maximize
round off error. Don't invent for yourself in floating-point
you will likely blunder if you are not an expert :-)
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1999-12-13 0:00 Ada83 Exponentiation HELP !!! jxredi
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-12-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-13 0:00 ` DuckE
1999-12-14 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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