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BTW, in regard to the pow.t tests, the following is weird:
my @pow = ([3,30,1e-14],
[4,32,0],
[5,20,1e-14],
[2.5, 10,,1e-14],
[-2, 69,0],
[-3, 30,0],
);
In the above, the test for powers of 3 has an epsilon of 1e-14 (which all of
the pow.t test failures seen are well below). But the test for powers of -3
has an epsilon of 0. This is inconsistent. Why should -3**$x be more precisely
determined than 3**$x? The above was added with change 20169, BTW.
-Allen
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