[Numpy-discussion] RE: Python 2.2 seriously crippled for numerical computation?

[Skip Montanaro]

(Minor point of possible confusion.)

I wrote:

    Skip> According to the pow man page on my Mandrake 8.1 system it
    Skip> suggests that ERANGE should be set if its first arg is zero.  This
    Skip> appears to happen when x is around 1.5717e-162.  

"x" is the name of the first arg to pow() in the pow() manpage.  The actual
arg in floatobject.c:float_pow() is "iv".

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