> On the contrary, IEEE floating point results are precisely specified to produce the closest representable value to the mathematically exact result.
Not sure about Rust, but C++ only guarantees that for four arithmetic operations and `sqrt`. Not `pow`, not `log`. Not even when when all inputs/outputs are integers. Sometimes you can even get `(int)pow(10, 2) == 99`, which I believe is fully standard-compliant.
Not sure about Rust, but C++ only guarantees that for four arithmetic operations and `sqrt`. Not `pow`, not `log`. Not even when when all inputs/outputs are integers. Sometimes you can even get `(int)pow(10, 2) == 99`, which I believe is fully standard-compliant.