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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53509] log1p: difference result in Octave and
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53509] log1p: difference result in Octave and MATLAB. |
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Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:37:53 -0400 (EDT) |
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Update of bug #53509 (project octave):
Status: None => Wont Fix
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #2:
Both Octave and Matlab are numerical computation languages, rather than pure
math. It is important to get a sense of the size of the error, and if it is
on the order of a few eps then that is all that can be expected.
In Octave,
log1p(2) - log(3)
ans = -2.2204e-16
so the calculation is as accurate as it can be expected given that
eps (2)
ans = 4.4409e-16
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