[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is logBase right?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 03:24 , Ketil Malde wrote:
> What puzzled me (and the parent article indicated), was that Python
> appeared to be able to work with more precision, and thus be more
> "numerically correct" than GHC.  Since it's all machine precision
> floating point, this is even more strange, and I couldn't reproduce
> the behavior for any other numbers than the one used in the
> example.

-fexcess-precision or other gcc compile options?

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