On Monday, 7 November 2016 at 09:21:11 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
On Sunday, 6 November 2016 at 21:45:28 UTC, Fendercaster wrote:
I'm not quite sure if this is the right forum to ask this
question:
I've been trying to implement the "floating-point modulus"
function from the math library. Equivalently that's what I've
tried in Python too. Problem is - the results are different
and not even close. Please have a look at both snippets. Maybe
someone can help me out:
[...]
Python uses 64-bit doubles. You may want to try with `double`
and `core.stdc.tgmath` -- Ilya
I'll give it a shot. Since the "real" type usually considers
80-bit operands, is the D variant more precise? And which of
those two results is correct, if any?
