Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
[Mark] > The idea is no more than: "compute an extra bit, then use > that extra bit to determine which way to round". Thanks! Despite that this is what the derivation I sketched boiled down to, I was still missing how general the underlying principle was. Duh! Indeed, nothing special about sqrt here. So I'm delightfully surprised again :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46187> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
