Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
Since this depends on the platform libm implementation of pow(), I'm closing this as "won't fix". Steve, on the chance you're serious ;-) , there are implementations of the "constructive reals", which indeed act like infinite-precision floats. But they tend to be very slow, and, e.g., testing two of them for equality is, in general, undecidable even in theory. Here's one such: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/spigot/ ---------- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: -Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37787> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
