Bug#310385: pi: floating point overflow with large number of digits requested.

2005-05-26 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
Steve, On Wed, 25 May 2005, Steve King wrote: > Ok, I have sucessfully done 100,000,000. > > Please bear with me, as you saw, it takes several hours for each > run, so I will have to run them overnight. 2^31*(log(2)/log(10)==646,456,993. That's where it *should* start failing. Can you confirm t

Bug#310385: pi: floating point overflow with large number of digits requested.

2005-05-25 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
Steve, On Wed, 25 May 2005, Steve King wrote: > Ok, I have sucessfully done 100,000,000. > > Please bear with me, as you saw, it takes several hours for each > run, so I will have to run them overnight. Ahhh, I'm beginning to suspect something: In CLN, the exponent is 32 Bits wide, regardless of

Bug#310385: pi: floating point overflow with large number of digits requested.

2005-05-25 Thread Steve King
Ok, I have sucessfully done 100,000,000. Please bear with me, as you saw, it takes several hours for each run, so I will have to run them overnight. -- Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#310385: pi: floating point overflow with large number of digits requested.

2005-05-24 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Steve King wrote: > I ran it again overnight, > > This is what we get: > > $ time pi 10 > pi > Floating point overflow. > > real505m34.348s > user314m7.021s > sys 10m59.082s > > > I don't have a full 20Gbytes of memory, so it is swapping. > However, except f

Bug#310385: pi: floating point overflow with large number of digits requested.

2005-05-24 Thread Steve King
I ran it again overnight, This is what we get: $ time pi 10 > pi Floating point overflow. real505m34.348s user314m7.021s sys 10m59.082s I don't have a full 20Gbytes of memory, so it is swapping. However, except for speed and killing my disk, it should not affect the result

Bug#310385: pi: floating point overflow with large number of digits requested.

2005-05-23 Thread Richard B. Kreckel
Thanks for your bugreport. On Mon, 23 May 2005, Steve King wrote: > Whilst messing with my new AMD64 I tried: > pi 10 > and left it going over the weekend. > Unfortunately when I came back, pi had failed with a floating point > overflow. Was "floatint point overflow" the actual failure?

Bug#310385: pi: floating point overflow with large number of digits requested.

2005-05-23 Thread Steve King
Package: pi Version: 1.1.9-1 Severity: minor Whilst messing with my new AMD64 I tried: pi 10 and left it going over the weekend. Unfortunately when I came back, pi had failed with a floating point overflow. (With such a huge request the virtual address space was >20Gbytes But is that not