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use ArbitraryPrecision.frink
/** This tests your processor's built-in IEEE-754 floating-point math
to see how bad it is for certain values of ln[x] around 1.
*/
setPrecision[100]
for i=1 to 17
{
n = 1. + 10^-i
a = ln[n]
b = arbitraryLn[n]
err = abs[a-b]/b
println["$n\t$a\t" + formatSig[err,1,4]]
}
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