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The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded

46 pointsby matt_dlast Wednesday at 1:47 AM3 commentsview on HN

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kergonathyesterday at 11:10 PM

I don’t think I ever used atanh, but I always love some floating-point nerdery. These other documents by the same team are fantastic resources: https://inria.hal.science/hal-04714173v2/document for complex values and https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/papers/accuracy.pdf for real values.

Lots of good stuff here: https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/papers/ .

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jcranmertoday at 12:31 AM

One of the major projects that's ongoing in the current decade is moving the standard math library functions to fully correctly-rounded, as opposed to the traditional accuracy target of ~1 ULP (the last bit is off).

For single-precision unary functions, it's easy enough to just exhaustively test every single input (there's only 4 billion of them). But double precision has prohibitively many inputs to test, so you have to resort to actual proof techniques to prove correct rounding for double-precision functions.

jonathrgyesterday at 11:08 PM

Good to know!