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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2012-12-29 06:56:04 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2012-12-29 06:56:04 +0530
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Demystify the magic number 134217729.0
The number 134217729.0 gets used in various places in e_pow.c but
there is no explanation of what that number is.  Add that explanation.
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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.h b/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.h
index c1e73543eb..c0a6e78ef6 100644
--- a/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.h
+++ b/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * IBM Accurate Mathematical Library
  * Written by International Business Machines Corp.
- * Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #ifndef BRANRED_H
 #define BRANRED_H
 
+#include <dla.h>
 
 #ifdef BIG_ENDI
 static const mynumber
@@ -74,6 +75,6 @@ static const double toverp[75] = { /*  2/ PI base 24*/
   12618859.0,  4703257.0, 12806093.0, 14477321.0,  2786137.0,
   12875403.0,  9837734.0, 14528324.0, 13719321.0,   343717.0 };
 
-static const double split =  134217729.0;
+static const double split =  CN;	/* 2^27 + 1 */
 
 #endif