[issue37787] Minimum denormal or ** bug

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters <tim at python.org> added the comment:

Since this depends on the platform libm implementation of pow(), I'm closing this as "won't fix".

Steve, on the chance you're serious ;-) , there are implementations of the "constructive reals", which indeed act like infinite-precision floats.  But they tend to be very slow, and, e.g., testing two of them for equality is, in general, undecidable even in theory.  Here's one such:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/spigot/

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resolution:  -> wont fix
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed
versions:  -Python 3.7

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