[Python-Dev] Decimal and Exponentiation

[Facundo Batista]

2006/5/19, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com>:

> If you're not a numeric expert, I wouldn't recommend that you try this
> yourself (in particular, trying to implement x**y as exp(ln(x)*y)
> using the same precision is mathematically correct but is numerically
> badly naive).

I'd start to see this not before two weeks (I have a conference, and
need to finish my papers).

TIm, we both know that I'm not, under any point of view, a numeric
expert. So, I'd ask you a favor.

Could you please send here some examples, for a given precision, of
perilous "not-int ** not-int" situations, just to add them to the test
cases and be sure that the modifications to Decimal are safe enough?

Or just point to some docs?

Thank you very much!

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