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Diagnosis resumes after milestone # 7, ... page 5
Program is now RUNNING tests on small integers:
-1, 0, 1/2 , 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 27, 32 & 240 are O.K.
Searching for radix and precision...
Radix = 2.
Closest relative separation found is 1.38777878E-17
Recalculating radix and precision
confirms closest relative separation .
Radix confirmed.
The number of significant digits of radix 2. is 56.00
Test for extra-precise subexpressions:
Subexpressions do not appear to be calculated
with extra precision.
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Diagnosis resumes after milestone # 30, ... page 6
Subtraction appears to be normalized as it should.
Checking for guard digits in multiply divide and subtract.
These operations appear to have guard digits as they should.
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Checking for rounding in multiply, divide and add/subtract:
Multiplication appears to be correctly rounded.
Division appears to be correctly rounded.
Add/subtract appears to be correctly rounded.
checking for sticky bit:
Sticky bit used incorrectly or not at all.
Does multiplication commute? Testing if x*y = y*x for 20 random pairs:
No failure found in 20 randomly chosen pairs.
Running tests of square root...
Testing if sqrt(x*x) = x for 20 integers x.
Found no discrepancies.
Sqrt has passed a test for monotonicity.
Testing whether sqrt is rounded or chopped:
Square root appears to be correctly rounded.
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Diagnosis resumes after milestone # 90, ... page 8
Testing powers z^i for small integers z and i :
Start with 0.**0 .
%MTH-F-UNDEXP, undefined exponentiation
user PC 00005EEA
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
module name routine name line rel PC abs PC
0000CD28 0000CD28
0003300B 0003300B
PWRCMP PWRCMP 32 0000001A 00005EEA
POWER POWER 57 0000008B 00006D83
DPARA$MAIN DPARA$MAIN 257 000004B2 00004CB2
CVSA3_CBU.PARANOIA> run dpara
Is this a program restart after failure (1)
or a start from scratch (0) ?
1
Restarting from milestone 90.
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Testing powers z^i for small integers z and i :
No discrepancies found.
Seeking underflow threshold and min positive number:
Smallest strictly positive number found is minpos = 2.93873588E-39
Since comparison denies MINPOS = 0,
evaluating ( MINPOS + MINPOS ) / MINPOS should be safe;
what the machine gets for ( MINPOS + MINPOS ) / MINPOS is
0.2000000E+01
This is O.K. provided over/underflow has not just been signaled.
FLAW: x = 0.40407618E-38 is unequal to z = 0.29387359E-38 ,
yet x-z yields 0.0000000E+00
Should this not signal underflow, this is a SERIOUS
DEFECT that causes confusion when innocent statements like
if (x.eq.z) then ... else ... ( f(x)-f(z) )/(x-z) ...
encounter division by zero although actually x/z = 1 + 0.37500000E+00
The underflow threshold is 0.29387359E-38 , below which
calculation may suffer larger relative error than merely roundoff.
SERIOUS
DEFECT: range is too narrow; ulpmin^ 4 underflows.
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since underflow occurs below the threshold =
( 2.00000000E+00)^( -1.28000000E+02) ,
only underflow should afflict the expression
( 2.00000000E+00)^( -2.56000000E+02) ;
actually calculating it yields
0.00000000E+00
This computed value is O.K.
Testing x^((x+1)/(x-1)) vs. exp(2) = 0.73890561E+01 as x-> 1.
Accuracy seems adequate.
Testing powers z^q at four nearly extreme values:
No discrepancies found.
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Searching for overflow threshold:
%SYSTEM-F-FLTOVF_F, arithmetic fault, floating overflow at PC=00006244, PSL=03C0
0020
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
module name routine name line rel PC abs PC
OVERF OVERF 104 0000026C 00006244
DPARA$MAIN DPARA$MAIN 276 000004D3 00004CD3
CVSA3_CBU.PARANOIA> run dpara
Is this a program restart after failure (1)
or a start from scratch (0) ?
1
Restarting from milestone 161.
Can " z = -y " overflow? trying it on y = -8.50705917E+37
Seems O.K.
Overflow threshold is v = 1.70141183E+38
There is no saturation value because
the system traps on overflow.
No overflow should be signaled for v*1 =
1.70141183E+38
nor for v/1 =
1.70141183E+38
Any overflow signal separating this * from one above is a DEFECT.
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Diagnosis resumes after milestone # 190, ... page 12
What messages and/or values does division by zero produce?
About to compute 1/0...
%SYSTEM-F-FLTDIV_F, arithmetic fault, floating divide by zero at PC=0000A894, PS
L=03C00020
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
module name routine name line rel PC abs PC
ZEROS ZEROS 52 00000074 0000A894
DPARA$MAIN DPARA$MAIN 282 000004E4 00004CE4
CVSA3_CBU.PARANOIA> run dpara
Is this a program restart after failure (1)
or a start from scratch (0) ?
1
Restarting from milestone 211.
About to compute 0/0...
%SYSTEM-F-FLTDIV_F, arithmetic fault, floating divide by zero at PC=0000A8F0, PS
L=03C00020
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
module name routine name line rel PC abs PC
ZEROS ZEROS 59 000000D0 0000A8F0
DPARA$MAIN DPARA$MAIN 282 000004E4 00004CE4
CVSA3_CBU.PARANOIA> run dpara
Is this a program restart after failure (1)
or a start from scratch (0) ?
1
Restarting from milestone 212.
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Diagnosis resumes after milestone # 220, ... page 13
The number of SERIOUS DEFECTs discovered = 1
The number of FLAWs discovered = 1
The arithmetic diagnosed has unacceptable Serious Defects.
End of Test.