Salman Haq <salman....@gmail.com> added the comment: Only the argument with one decimal place precision does NOT overflow.
Python 2.7a1+ (trunk:76872, Dec 21 2009, 09:54:29) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from math import expm1 >>> expm1(709.78271289338397) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: math range error >>> expm1(709.782712893) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: math range error >>> expm1(709.7827) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: math range error >>> expm1(709.782) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: math range error >>> expm1(709.78) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: math range error >>> expm1(709.7) 1.6549840276802644e+308 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7575> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
