Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 8, 2:59 pm, Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> wrote: > > pow() is trickier. Exact results have to be weeded out before > > attempting the correction loop for correct rounding, and this is > > complicated. > > > > For example, in decimal this expression takes a long time (in cdecimal > > the power function is not correctly rounded): > > > > Decimal('100.0') ** Decimal('-557.71e-742888888') > > Hmm. So it does. Luckily, this particular problem is easy to deal > with. Though I dare say that you have more up your sleeve. :)?
Not at the moment, but I'll keep trying. :) Stefan Krah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list