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Subject: Re: Has Android different floats?
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On 6/24/2018 2:41 PM, j4n bur53 wrote:
> 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

>    23-1.6777216E7

>    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

>    23-0.0

>    29-1.7592186044416E13
>    30-0.0
> 
> Has Android different floats?
> Tested jdk1.8.0_152 against Android 8.0.0

ARM supposedly use standard IEEE 754 FP.

But I wonder if usage of strictfp would change your results.

Arne