Re: bin/170206: complex arcsinh, log, etc.

On 07/28/2012 10:46 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> OK.  This clog really seems to work.
>
> x*x + y*y - 1 is computed with a ULP less than 0.8.  The rest of the
> errors seem to be due to the implementation of log1p.  The ULP of the
> final answer seems to be never bigger than a little over 2.
>
>

Also, I don't think the problem is due to the implementation of log1p. 
If you do an error analysis of log(1+x) where x is about exp(-1)-1, and 
x is correct to within 0.8 ULP, I suspect that about 2.5 ULP is the best 
you can do for the final answer:

relative_error(log(1+x)) = fabs(1/((1+x) log(1+x))) * relative_error(x)
                   = 1.58 * relative_error(x)

Given that log1p has itself a ULP of about 1, and relative error in x is 
0.8, and considering x=exp(-1)-1, this gives a ULP at around 1.58*0.8+1 
= 2.3.  And that is what I observed.

(Here "=" means approximately equal to.)
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