On 1 July 2011 19:17, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thom Brown writes:
>> It says that exp(1.0) yields 2.71828182845905.
>
> exp(1.0) invokes numeric exp() these days, but when the examples were
> written, it would have invoked float8 exp(). At least on my machine,
> float8 does give the cited results
>
> N
On 1 July 2011 19:19, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thom Brown writes:
>> I noticed that there are no example outputs shown on the geometric
>> functions page
>> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-geometry.html).
>> So I've attached a patch which adds them. I'm not entirely sure to
>> ma
Thom Brown writes:
> I noticed that there are no example outputs shown on the geometric
> functions page
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-geometry.html).
> So I've attached a patch which adds them. I'm not entirely sure to
> make of the 2 example outputs that are very larg
Thom Brown writes:
> I've been looking at some of the functions listed in the docs and
> noticed some apparent discrepancies.
> This page of the docs doesn't seem to match real output for exp or ln:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-math.html
> It says that exp(1.0) yields 2.
