Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> It wouldn't be hard to go for _always_ correctly rounded > and actually get it over. Yes, that would be the right thing to do. Does the technique you had in mind involve testing 1 ulp up or down to see whether its square is closer to the input? > an Emax of 999 and an Emin of -999 would already be > more than big enough. Right. In haste, I confused max_exp=1024 with max_10_exp=308. Am still thinking that the precision needs to be bumped up a bit the 28 place default. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45876> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
