Both the proposed implementations do fp rounding twice, and so produce
an inaccurate answer. I think we should probably leave it to the user
to define incorrect math functions, rather than bake them into the
language.
2011/12/19 Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de>:
> I haven’t seen these two functions among the proposed additions for Math
> (should these be in a math module?):
>
> function nthRoot(n, x) {
> return Math.pow(x, 1/n);
> }
>
> function log_b(b, x) {
> return Math.log(x) / Math.log(b);
> }
>
> Have they been considered and rejected?
>
> Axel
>
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