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diff --git a/manual/math.texi b/manual/math.texi index 6eba775cde..7ebcddee3f 100644 --- a/manual/math.texi +++ b/manual/math.texi @@ -1230,12 +1230,12 @@ floating-point number representation. Ideally the error for all functions is always less than 0.5ulps. Using rounding bits this is also possible and normally implemented for the basic operations. To achieve the same for the complex math functions requires a lot more work and -this was not spend so far. +this has not yet been done. Therefore many of the functions in the math library have errors. The table lists the maximum error for each function which is exposed by one -of the existing tests in the test suite. It is tried to cover as much -as possible and really list the maximum error (or at least a ballpark +of the existing tests in the test suite. The table tries to cover as much +as possible and list the actual maximum error (or at least a ballpark figure) but this is often not achieved due to the large search space. The table lists the ULP values for different architectures. Different @@ -1243,6 +1243,8 @@ architectures have different results since their hardware support for floating-point operations varies and also the existing hardware support is different. +@page +@c This multitable does not fit on a single page @include libm-err.texi @node Pseudo-Random Numbers |