progress on powl.

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sat Dec 16 16:54:07 UTC 2017


On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 03:08:52PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > As expect no one elase is working on powl, I have
> > dusted off my work-in-progress that is now some
> > 1+ year in the works. I've now got a sort of
> > working version in very limited testing.
> > ...
> > I'm still slowing working out some thresholds and
> > few other kinks.  The biggest problem is that
> > src/e_pow.c may be the worse commented code that
> > I've had the pleasure to read.  There are 3 polynomial
> > approximations.  One is easy to work.  The other two
> > are gaint mysteries at moment.
> 

I spoke too soon.  It seems that some of my bit twiddling
has gone off the rails. :(

-- 
Steve


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