[issue31980] Special case log(x, 2), log(x, 10) and pow(2, x)

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Also, prec_log would need significant work to make it handle all the corner cases sensibly. For example:

Python 3.6.3 (default, Oct  5 2017, 23:34:28) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)] on darwin
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>>> import math
>>> def prec_log(x, y):
...     a = math.log(x, y)
...     return a + math.log(x / math.pow(y, a), y)
... 
>>> math.log(3**1000, 3)
999.9999999999999
>>> prec_log(3**1000, 3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in prec_log
OverflowError: math range error

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