On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:41:15 GMT, fabioromano1 <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This is my hunch as well. >> So while the use of `nextUp()` and `ceil()` certainly help to achieve an >> overestimate, I'm less sure that this is sufficient when using `pow()`. If >> the latter has some error bigger than a few ulps, then we are in trouble. > > @rgiulietti Now that I checked the recurrence better, it seems to me that it > should give an overestimate if `rLong` is an underestimate, without modify it. Can you please provide a succinct "proof" in form of a comment? Needs to be convincing, although not necessarily rigorous. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24898#discussion_r2226184420