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Thank you for the suggestions.

I think they were completely irrelevant to the problem you're facing.
Silly me didn't think to actually check what the correct calculation of floor( log($num) / log(1000) ) should yield under 'long double' (64-bit) precision.

When I do check, I find that the correct answer is -12.
The error is in your test script ... either that, or in Math::MPFR:
use strict; use warnings; use Math::MPFR qw(:mpfr); # Set precision for extended # precision 'long double' Rmpfr_set_default_prec(64); my $num = Math::MPFR->new('1e-33'); my $thou = Math::MPFR->new('1000'); # Convert $num & $thou to their # respective log() Rmpfr_log($num, $num, MPFR_RNDN); Rmpfr_log($thou, $thou, MPFR_RNDN); print $num / $thou; # prints -1.10000000000000000009e1
This indicates that when the floating point precision is 64 bits, the correct floor() result is -12.
And, IIUC, the test script should accept '1000e-36' as correct when NV precision is 64 bits (as is the case with those 2 FAIL reports).

Interestingly, with full quad precision of 113 bits, the calculation reverts to returning -11.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: Portability of floor(log(N)) by syphilis
in thread Portability of floor(log(N)) by toolic

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