Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 14 November 2015 at 00:16, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can't see a way to make that work reliably. It would need to be
>> 10^estimate_ln_weight(base) and the problem is that both exp and
>> ln_weight could be too big to fit in double variables, and become
>> HUGE_VAL, losing all precision.
> Of course I meant 10^ln_weight could be too big to fit in a double.
Drat, that's the second time in this review that I've confused
ln_weight(x) with ln(x). Time to call it a day ...
regards, tom lane
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