On Thursday, May 14, 2015 at 3:46:25 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I think the right thing would be for log(b,x) to first promote its >> arguments to the same type. Otherwise, you run into the problem here >> where you have a spurious loss of accuracy. I'll file a PR. > > > Is this different than what my PR does? >
No. What happened was that I wrote my response and my PR, then a student came into my office and we talked for a couple hours, and then I turned back to my computer and hit "post" and then pushed the PR, not realizing that you'd arrived at the same solution in the meantime.
