Re: Large errors for eint()

[Jeroen Demeyer <jdemeyer@cage.ugent.be>]

On 2013-11-09 23:36, Karim Belabas wrote:
> 1) For eint1, it was an oversight (1-word cancellation just before
> returning the result, plus a few other places where we computed with one
> word less than intended). This one is now fixed in commit f0ed0cd2
Shouldn't the result of eint1() be truncated to the original precision?

gp> x=15.0;
gp> \x
[&=0000000001ae3d90] REAL(lg=4,CLONE):0500000000000004 
(+,expo=3):6000000000000003 f000000000000000 0000000000000000

gp> eint1(x);
gp> \x
[&=00000000019eefb0] REAL(lg=5,CLONE):0500000000000005 
(+,expo=-26):5fffffffffffffe6 a4cf12d33ea678a5 77d1130620dd3589 
3573133270000000