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Re: math.frexp

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject Re: math.frexp
Date 2016-07-15 13:24 -0700
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Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
> But this can give some protection against overflow of intermediate
> values. 

Might be simplest to just add the logarithms.  Look up Kahan summation
for how to do that while minimizing loss of precision.

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math.frexp Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-15 21:39 +1000
  Re: math.frexp Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 21:48 +1000
    Re: math.frexp Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-16 02:32 +1000
      Re: math.frexp Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 02:44 +1000
      Re: math.frexp Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-07-15 14:28 -0400
      Re: math.frexp Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-15 13:24 -0700
        Re: math.frexp Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-16 20:21 +1000
          Re: math.frexp Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-16 12:49 -0700
  Re: math.frexp Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-07-15 17:39 +0100
  Re: math.frexp Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2016-07-17 01:18 +0200

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