2) Add rigorous error analysis to _mpd_qlog10 (ACL2 proofs exist).
3) Use the relative error as a basis for the interval generation in the
correction loop (same as in _mpd_qln()).
List all of them in the comment.
2) Use the recently stated relative error of _mpd_qln() to generate the
interval for the exact value of ln(x). See also the comment in mpd_qexp().
open() and io.TextIOWrapper are now calling locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
instead of locale.getpreferredencoding() in text mode if the encoding is not
specified. Don't change temporary the locale encoding using locale.setlocale(),
use the current locale encoding instead of the user preferred encoding.
Explain also in open() documentation that locale.getpreferredencoding(False) is
called if the encoding is not specified.
Underflow to zero hasn't changed: _mpd_qexp() internally uses MIN_EMIN,
so the result would also underflow to zero for all emin > MIN_EMIN.
In case digits are left, the informal argument is as follows: Underflow can
occur only once in the last multiplication of the power stage (in the Horner
stage Underflow provably cannot occur, and if Underflow occurred twice in
the power stage, the result would underflow to zero on the second occasion).
Since there is no double rounding during Underflow, the effective work
precision is now 1 <= result->digits < prec. It can be shown by a somewhat
tedious argument that abs(result - e**x) < ulp(result, result->digits).
Therefore the correct rounding loop now uses ulp(result, result->digits)
to generate the bounds for e**x in case of Underflow.
An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and ctypes.c_float that
caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the case of overflow has been
fixed.
An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and ctypes.c_float that
caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the case of overflow has been
fixed.
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1) Reduce the number of iterations in the Horner scheme for operands with
a negative adjusted exponent. Previously the number was overestimated
quite generously.
2) The function _mpd_get_exp_iterations() now has an ACL2 proof and
is rewritten accordingly.
3) The proof relies on abs(op) > 9 * 10**(-prec-1), so operands without
that property are now handled by the new function _mpd_qexp_check_one().
4) The error analysis for the evaluation of the truncated Taylor series
in Hull&Abrham's paper relies on the fact that the reduced operand
'r' has fewer than context.prec digits.
Since the operands may have more than context.prec digits, a new ACL2
proof covers the case that r.digits > context.prec. To facilitate the
proof, the Horner step now uses fma instead of rounding twice in
multiply/add.
Changes in mpd_qexp():
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1) Fix a bound in the correct rounding loop that was too optimistic. In
practice results were always correctly rounded, because it is unlikely
that the error in _mpd_qexp() ever reaches the theoretical maximum.
