Hi - I'm curious if there is any interest in the Python community to achieve better cross-platform math behavior. A quick test[1] shows a non-surprising difference between the platform implementations. Question: Is there any interest in changing the behavior to produce identical results across platforms (for example by utilizing fdlibm [2])? Since I have need for a set of cross-platform math functions I'll probably start with a math-compatible fdlibm module (unless somebody has done that already ;-)
Cheers, - Andreas [1] Using Python 2.4: >>> import math >>> math.cos(1.0e32) WinXP: -0.39929634612021897 LinuxX86: -0.49093671143542561 [2] http://www.netlib.org/fdlibm/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
