[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is logBase right?

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

2009/8/22 Roberto López <plastermoso at hotmail.com>

>
> You get the accuracy value in Perl, but there is the same problem in
> Python.
> It's a bit discouraging.
>

You don't get an accurate answer with Perl. It just lies to you to keep you
happy in your ignorance.

$ perl -e 'printf "%.22f\n", log(1000)/log(10);'
2.9999999999999995559108
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