So a bug?
On Saturday, 28 June 2014 13:59:22 UTC+2, Mauro wrote: > > I think that is a rounding issue. log(2)==0.693... Presumably it > can't quite fit log(2) 15x into log(32768), thus it returns a reminder > which is almost log(2): > > julia> rem(a,b)-log(2) > -1.1102230246251565e-16 > > which is around machine precision: > > julia> eps(1.0) > 2.220446049250313e-16 > > On Sat, 2014-06-28 at 10:40, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > When using the rem() function, I found out a mysterious thing. (Maybe > only > > my ignorance, hard to tell.) The log(32768)/log(2) gives 15.0, but > > rem(log(32768),log(2)) gives 0.693... How so? > >
