From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improved log/log10, add round-ash Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:50:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87oc6chn7c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871v395lbh.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297813854 26424 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2011 23:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:50:54 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 00:50:48 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpUfP-0006Rw-Mn for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:50:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpUfP-0001QQ-AL for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:50:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47745 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PpUfN-0001QK-87 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:50:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpUfM-0006F6-2T for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PpUfL-0006Eu-PA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpUfJ-0006PC-RP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:50:41 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:50:41 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:50:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 28 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pluvi=F4se?= an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:chWKVR1J1YFvm99owrNMOwBYpQw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11651 Archived-At: Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver writes: > The first patch here is a trivial comment fix for numbers.test. > > The second patch fixes some serious problems in the logarithm functions > when applied to large integers, large or small fractions, or fractions > with large numerators and denominators which are close to 1. I strongly > recommend including it in 2.0.0. I applied them both. I’ll revert the latter tomorrow if it breaks on some other platform. The third one will be for later. Thanks! Ludo’.