Even in Perl you've got
MigMit:~ MigMit$ perl -e 'printf("%.20f\n",log(125)/log(5))'
3.00000000000000044409
On 22 Aug 2009, at 13:24, Roberto López wrote:
If 4.0 / 2.0 was 1.9999999999999999999998, it would be ok?
The real value of log10 1000 is 3 (3.0). It can be represented with
accuracy
and it should be.
You get the accuracy value in Perl, but there is the same problem in
Python.
It's a bit discouraging.
Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
What do you consider to be the specification of logBase? Exact
floating-point numbers don't exist, so it has to return an
approximation. The standard doesn't give any guarantees as to the
precision of the approximation. Is a precision of 0.00000000000004
not
satisfactory for you?
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