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- Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (rc7) now available
- From: liam mail <liam.list@...>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 20:09:18 +0100
On Friday, 9 December 2011, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> and the simple tests:
>>
>> > print(2^3 - 8)
>> -1.7763568394003e-015
>> > print(3^4 - 81)
>> 2.8421709430404e-014
>> > =2^4-16
>> -1.7763568394003e-015
>
> These all should be zero. It really seems that the 'pow' function
> from the C library is broken.
>
> -- Roberto
>
>
It is not broken yet produces results which are very close to zero which is all you can expect with floating point calculations.
Liam
