[SciPy-User] Simple math question

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:
>
>> Assuming 0 <= p <= 1, I don't see the problem there.
>>
>
> I had just assumed there'd be numerical accuracy issues, but maybe not.

Any numerical problems that you might have with the power gets swamped
because you can only get within floating point precision of 1.

If the results were zero, then there are special function to get
better precision for tiny numbers.

AFAICS.

Josef


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