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From: | Stephen Montgomery-Smith |
Subject: | Re: Possible loss of accuracy |
Date: | Wed, 15 May 2013 18:07:33 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 |
OK guys, look at this. exp(2^50 * log(1-2^-50)) ans = 3.6787944117144216749e-01 (1-2^-50)^(2^50) ans = 3.6787944112862880353e-01 So the problem is with the pow function, not the log or the exp.
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