[Ecls-list] log and overflow

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs.tamu.edu> wrote:
> The log function in the form
>
>  (let ((a (expt 234 108)))
>    (and (< a most-positive-double-float)
>         (log a 10)))

That bignum cannot be represented as a floating point number and thus
it causes LOG to overflow. There are algorithms to handle these cases,
but you have to understand that the specification allows a floating
point operation to overflow in these cases. I take note, though and
will try to change the behavior for this particular function.

Juanjo

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