[issue31630] math.tan has poor accuracy near pi/2 on OpenBSD

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

I would have thought this would be a straight pass-through to the underlying hardware FPU tan() instruction so that it would give the same answer for the same hardware regardless of O/S.

Perhaps we're seeing a software-only implementation (using CORDIC or somesuch).  If so, inputs close to a singularity are the place where the implementation is likely to fall apart (the relative error in this example is 1.000004001955473).

* https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Errors-in-Math-Functions.html
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16880376/sin-cos-tan-not-accurate
* http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576792-polar-to-rectangular-conversions-using-cordic/

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nosy: +rhettinger, tim.peters

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