This PR updates `math.nextafter` to add a new `steps` argument. The behaviour is as though `math.nextafter` had been called `steps` times in succession.
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Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>
While floor/ceil 's documentation are very precise, `truncate` was not explained. I actually had to search online to understand the difference between `truncate` and `floor` (admittedly, once I remembered that numbers are signed, and that floating numbers actually uses a bit for negation symbol instead of two complement, it became obvious)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
Change the behaviour of `math.pow(0.0, -math.inf)` and `math.pow(-0.0, -math.inf)` to return positive infinity instead of raising `ValueError`. This makes `math.pow` consistent with the built-in `pow` (and the `**` operator) for this particular special case, and brings the `math.pow` special-case handling into compliance with IEEE 754.
This commit reverts commit ac0333e1e1 as the original links are working again and they provide extended features such as comments and alternative versions.
* bpo-39648: Expand math.gcd() and math.lcm() to handle multiple arguments.
* Simplify fast path.
* Difine lcm() without arguments returning 1.
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-Authored-By: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
* Add math.isqrt function computing the integer square root.
* Code cleanup: remove redundant comments, rename some variables.
* Tighten up code a bit more; use Py_XDECREF to simplify error handling.
* Update Modules/mathmodule.c
Co-Authored-By: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
* Update Modules/mathmodule.c
Use real argument clinic type instead of an alias
Co-Authored-By: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
* Add proof sketch
* Updates from review.
* Correct and expand documentation.
* Fix bad reference handling on error; make some variables block-local; other tidying.
* Style and consistency fixes.
* Add missing error check; don't try to DECREF a NULL a
* Simplify some error returns.
* Another two test cases:
- clarify that floats are rejected even if they happen to be
squares of small integers
- TypeError beats ValueError for a negative float
* Documentation and markup improvements; thanks Serhiy for the suggestions!
* Cleaner Misc/NEWS entry wording.
* Clean up (with one fix) to the algorithm explanation and proof.
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