Re: Add error functions: erf() and erfc()

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add error functions: erf() and erfc()
Date: 2023-03-09 00:30:02
Message-ID: 20230309003002.GA3623552@nathanxps13
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 12:27:47AM +0000, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 00:13, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'm also wondering about whether we need the isinf() checks. IIUC that
>> should never happen, but maybe you added that "just in case."
>
> I copied those from dtanh(), otherwise I probably wouldn't have
> bothered. erf() is always in the range [-1, 1], just like tanh(), so
> it should never overflow, but maybe it can happen in a broken
> implementation.

Okay. This looks good to me, then.

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Nathan Bossart
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