Oct. 12, 2000
5:47 p.m.
Just a little unreality check - the whole world is not (yet) Linux - or even MS. The behaviour of math.exp(-746) on my flavours of 1.5.2 on Solaris boxes and DEC Alphas (Tru64 Unix) is the same as the behaviour of 2.0 - OverflowError: math range error. Thus, on these platform, the proposed fixes _will_ change behaviour. But that's cool - I like Tim's proposed, um, steps to "rationalizing" fp behaviour, and will do what I can to help in the future. -- Email - m.favas@per.dem.csiro.au CSIRO Exploration & Mining