The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded
46 points by matt_d 3 days ago | 3 comments
jcranmer 23 minutes ago
One of the major projects that's ongoing in the current decade is moving the standard math library functions to fully correctly-rounded, as opposed to the traditional accuracy target of ~1 ULP (the last bit is off).
replyFor single-precision unary functions, it's easy enough to just exhaustively test every single input (there's only 4 billion of them). But double precision has prohibitively many inputs to test, so you have to resort to actual proof techniques to prove correct rounding for double-precision functions.
Lots of good stuff here: https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/papers/ .