Re: n accuracy

On 30 May 2007 05:10:07 -0700, fireblade <slobodan.blazeski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

it gets converted to ..17. it appears that single-presision IEEE
754 numbers are not able to represent that decimal value
correctly. so i wonder how did OP get that result. maybe
implementation with some other FP numbers..

It's LW 5.0.1 result with type-of single-float

Note that the CLHS says that "implementations of EXPT are permitted to
use different algorithms for the cases of a power-number of type
RATIONAL and a power-number of type FLOAT." There'll likely be a
difference between (EXPT 1) and (EXPT 1s0).

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