From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 01:46:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZeZrSl0RgM4KfrdB@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANv4PNkVv_0eLgiSP3L_KfC-eZJaVLZ5AP1AGfD0GNrR5M4Hrg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 07:28:10PM -0500, Morten Welinder wrote:
> significand:
> The range [1,2) should be [1,FLT_RADIX)
Hi Morten,
I've fixed this with the following commit. Thanks for the report!
Have a lovely night!
Alex
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commit 6003cc006de65d8798a3324605c8b9d5abeef231 (HEAD -> contrib)
Author: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Tue Mar 5 01:44:44 2024 +0100
significand.3: significand uses FLT_RADIX, not 2
It's implemented using scalb(), which uses FLT_RADIX.
Reported-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
diff --git a/man3/significand.3 b/man3/significand.3
index e991a822a..f835f5511 100644
--- a/man3/significand.3
+++ b/man3/significand.3
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ .SH SYNOPSIS
.SH DESCRIPTION
These functions return the mantissa of
.I x
-scaled to the range [1,2).
+scaled to the range
+.RB [ 1 ,\~ FLT_RADIX ).
They are equivalent to
.P
.in +4n
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-05 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-01 0:28 Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10 Morten Welinder
2024-03-01 0:53 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-02 21:17 ` Morten Welinder
2024-03-02 21:54 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 2:02 ` Morten Welinder
2024-03-03 2:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 11:46 ` Vincent Lefevre
2024-03-03 12:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 22:26 ` Morten Welinder
2024-03-04 12:17 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-04 17:52 ` logb() vs floor(log2()) (was: Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10) Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-04 18:47 ` logb() vs floor(log2()) Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-03-04 22:16 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-04 23:23 ` logb() vs floor(log2()) (was: Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10) Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 0:46 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2024-03-05 1:05 ` Man page issues: logb, significand, cbrt, log2, log10, exp10 Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 1:18 ` Alejandro Colomar
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