Karim Belabas on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:08:00 +0100


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Re: Incorrect result with GMP 4.2.4 under Mac OS X (PowerPC)


* Vincent Lefevre [2009-03-09 05:25]:
> On my Mac OS X 10.4.11 (PowerPC) machine:
[...
> ? 17.
> %1 = 1.000000000000000002257486487 E72
> 
> There was no problem with GMP 4.2.3.

Probably our fault: we use an undocumented GMP interface to convert between
mpn and mpz.

I guess this is the problem here. I'll download GMP-4.2.4 later today
and see what changed.

Cheers,

    K.B.
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