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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: numeric precision when raising one numeric to
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In response to Re: numeric precision when raising one numeric to  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
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Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> writes:
> It also doesn't seem to work terribly well:

It's not terribly bright about figuring out how many significant digits
it should try to calculate, nor about how many it's actually got in the
result.  Feel free to fix that ;-)  I believe the numeric exp() and ln()
functions have similar issues.

            regards, tom lane

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