authorgravatar for kiyonnxperiaz@gmail.comTemariVirus <kiyonnxperiaz@gmail.com> 2025-12-13 04:23:57+08:00
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std.math.pow: fix wrong answer for large even exponents

1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

lib/std/math/pow.zig+7-1
......@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ pub fn pow(comptime T: type, x: T, y: T) T {
124124 return math.nan(T);
125125 }
126126 if (yi >= 1 << (@typeInfo(T).float.bits - 1)) {
127 return @exp(y * @log(x));
127 // yi is a large even int, so the result is always positive
128 // and the sign of x doesn't matter
129 return @exp(y * @log(@abs(x)));
128130 }
129131
130132 // a = a1 * 2^ae
......@@ -208,6 +210,7 @@ test pow {
208210 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f32, pow(f32, 1.5, 3.3), 3.811546, epsilon));
209211 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f32, pow(f32, 37.45, 3.3), 155736.703125, epsilon));
210212 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f32, pow(f32, 89.123, 3.3), 2722489.5, epsilon));
213 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f32, pow(f32, -1.0, 1e10), 1.0, epsilon));
211214
212215 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f64, pow(f64, 0.0, 3.3), 0.0, epsilon));
213216 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f64, pow(f64, 0.8923, 3.3), 0.686572, epsilon));
......@@ -215,6 +218,7 @@ test pow {
215218 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f64, pow(f64, 1.5, 3.3), 3.811546, epsilon));
216219 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f64, pow(f64, 37.45, 3.3), 155736.7160616, epsilon));
217220 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f64, pow(f64, 89.123, 3.3), 2722490.231436, epsilon));
221 try expect(math.approxEqAbs(f64, pow(f64, -1.0, 1e20), 1.0, epsilon));
218222}
219223
220224test "special" {
......@@ -265,4 +269,6 @@ test "overflow" {
265269 try expect(math.isNegativeInf(pow(f64, -2, (1 << 32) + 1)));
266270 try expect(pow(f64, 0.5, 1 << 45) == 0);
267271 try expect(math.isPositiveInf(pow(f64, 0.5, -(1 << 45))));
272 try expect(math.isPositiveInf(pow(f64, -2, 1 << 64)));
273 try expect(pow(f64, 0.5, 1 << 64) == 0);
268274}