[tex-live] strange discrepancy in running time of etex between TL2015 and TL2017
jfbu
jfbu at free.fr
Sat Jul 29 09:45:45 CEST 2017
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> http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/
>
> but even then
>
> Power function:
> Results are not correctly rounded, even if the allcr context field is set to 1. This might change in a future release. The error of the function is less than 1ULP+t, where t has a maximum of 0.1ULP, but is almost always less than 0.01ULP.
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> (power function with integer or half-integer exponent in xint currently achieves better precision than that, more like 0.5ULP + epsilon)
Hi, sorry for noise, but just to correct myself,
as the mpdecimal allows the various rounding modes
from the IBM specification,
http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/doc/libmpdec/context.html#rounding
such as "round away from 0" it is normal that the error
is qualified as 1ULP+something. Probably when the rounding
mode is half_up, half_down, or half_even, then the library
achieves 0.5ULP + something, but the doc does not say so
in this quote,
I know I am drifting off topic, but I wanted
to correct my remark (people will read this
in decades even centuries, so I have to tighten
the bolts)
Best,
Jean-Francois
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