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authordas <das@FreeBSD.org>2010-12-07 02:19:15 +0000
committerdas <das@FreeBSD.org>2010-12-07 02:19:15 +0000
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Fix various nits in style and comments that were pointed out by bde.
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diff --git a/lib/msun/man/math.3 b/lib/msun/man/math.3
index 8e79ce5..39aa8ab 100644
--- a/lib/msun/man/math.3
+++ b/lib/msun/man/math.3
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ yn Bessel function of the second kind of the order n
.El
.Pp
The routines
-in this section may not produce a result that is correctly rounded,
+in this section might not produce a result that is correctly rounded,
so reproducible results cannot be guaranteed across platforms.
For most of these functions, however, incorrect rounding occurs
rarely, and then only in very-close-to-halfway cases.
@@ -231,9 +231,8 @@ Many of the routines to compute transcendental functions produce
inaccurate results in other than the default rounding mode.
.Pp
On the i386 platform, trigonometric argument reduction is not
-performed accurately for very large arguments, resulting in errors
-greater than 1
-.Em ulp
+performed accurately for huge arguments, resulting in
+large errors
for such arguments to
.Fn cos ,
.Fn sin ,
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