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authorMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2011-05-09 07:40:20 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2011-05-09 07:40:20 (GMT)
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Grammatical fix for a comment for log2, to avoid referring to an *algorithm* as monotonic.
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diff --git a/Modules/mathmodule.c b/Modules/mathmodule.c
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@@ -581,8 +581,10 @@ m_log(double x)
log2: log to base 2.
Uses an algorithm that should:
+
(a) produce exact results for powers of 2, and
- (b) be monotonic, assuming that the system log is monotonic.
+ (b) give a monotonic log2 (for positive finite floats),
+ assuming that the system log is monotonic.
*/
static double