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Subject: Has Android different floats?
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:41:44 -0500
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From: j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm>

Dear All,

Running a simple test.
** is Math.pow(),
^ is BigInteger.pow() and then BigInteger.doubleValue().

On Java:

   ?- between(15,30,N), X is 10**N-10^N, write(N-X), nl, fail; true.
   15-0.0
   16-0.0
   17-0.0
   18-0.0
   19-0.0
   20-0.0
   21-0.0
   22-0.0
   23-1.6777216E7
   24-0.0
   25-0.0
   26-0.0
   27-0.0
   28-0.0
   29-0.0
   30-0.0

On Adroid:

   ?- between(15,30,N), X is 10**N-10^N, write(N-X), nl, fail; true.
   15-0.0
   16-0.0
   17-0.0
   18-0.0
   19-0.0
   20-0.0
   21-0.0
   22-0.0
   23-0.0
   24-0.0
   25-0.0
   26-0.0
   27-0.0
   28-0.0
   29-1.7592186044416E13
   30-0.0

Has Android different floats?
Tested jdk1.8.0_152 against Android 8.0.0

Best Regards

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