math.frexp
Paul Rubin
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Sat Jul 16 15:49:21 EDT 2016
Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:
>>> protection against overflow of intermediate values.
>> Might be simplest to just add the logarithms.
> Simplest, but least accurate, even with Kahan summation or equivalent.
Well the idea was to avoid overflow first, then hold on to whatever
precision you have after that. Is there a way to use extended
(e.g. 80-bit) floats in numpy/scipy/etc.?
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