Ellen Wang added the comment:
OK. My bad. I should have been tipped off that the program didn't need -lm to
link. Output from C code:
0.135335
1
0.239022
Feel free to close. I'll have to look into this on my own. Thanks and sorry
New submission from Ellen Wang:
This is only on a PowerPC, specifically a p2020, running Debian 7.0 wheezy,
python 2.7.3.
Calling round() seems to corrupt something (in the floating point state?) that
causes subsequent exponentiation (the ** operator) to be wrong:
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan
Ellen Wang added the comment:
Here's an example that uses only math library functions and float literals,
presumably with a simpler code path:
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 16:38:11)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
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import math
