"Round half-way cases" is a little confusing (it's a 'garden path
sentence' as it's not immediately clear whether round is an adjective
or verb).
Make this sentence longer and clearer.
Improve floating point documentation
This is my attempt to improve/solve https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/95468 and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73328 .
Added/refined explanations:
- Refine the "NaN as a special value" top level explanation of f32
- Refine `const NAN` docstring: add an explanation about there being multitude of NaN bitpatterns and disclaimer about the portability/stability guarantees.
- Refine `fn is_sign_positive` and `fn is_sign_negative` docstrings: add disclaimer about the sign bit of NaNs.
- Refine `fn min` and `fn max` docstrings: explain the semantics and their relationship to the standard and libm better.
- Refine `fn trunc` docstrings: explain the semantics slightly more.
- Refine `fn powi` docstrings: add disclaimer that the rounding behaviour might be different from `powf`.
- Refine `fn copysign` docstrings: add disclaimer about payloads of NaNs.
- Refine `minimum` and `maximum`: add disclaimer that "propagating NaN" doesn't mean that propagating the NaN bit patterns is guaranteed.
- Refine `max` and `min` docstrings: add "ignoring NaN" to bring the one-row explanation to parity with `minimum` and `maximum`.
Cosmetic changes:
- Reword `NaN` and `NAN` as plain "NaN", unless they refer to the specific `const NAN`.
- Reword "a number" to `self` in function docstrings to clarify.
- Remove "Returns NAN if the number is NAN" from `abs`, as this is told to be the default behavior in the top explanation.
- Refine the "NaN as a special value" top level explanation of f32
- Refine `const NAN` docstring.
- Refine `fn is_sign_positive` and `fn is_sign_negative` docstrings.
- Refine `fn min` and `fn max` docstrings.
- Refine `fn trunc` docstrings.
- Refine `fn powi` docstrings.
- Refine `fn copysign` docstrings.
- Reword `NaN` and `NAN` as plain "NaN", unless they refer to the specific `const NAN`.
- Reword "a number" to `self` in function docstrings to clarify.
- Remove "Returns NAN if the number is NAN" as this is told to be the default behavior in the top explanation.
- Remove "propagating NaNs", as full propagation (preservation of payloads) is not guaranteed.
Move {f32,f64}::clamp to core.
`clamp` was recently stabilized (tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44095). But although `Ord::clamp` was added in `core` (because `Ord` is in `core`), the versions for the `f32` and `f64` primitives were added in `std` (together with `floor`, `sin`, etc.), not in `core` (together with `min`, `max`, `from_bits`, etc.).
This change moves them to `core`, such that `clamp` on floats is available in `no_std` programs as well.
Improve documentation for `std::{f32,f64}::mul_add`
Makes it more clear that performance improvement is not guaranteed when using FMA, even when the target architecture supports it natively.
Stabilize clamp
Tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44095
Clamp has been merged and unstable for about a year and a half now. How do we feel about stabilizing this?
make exp_m1 and ln_1p examples more representative of use
With this PR, the examples for `exp_m1` would fail if `x.exp() - 1.0` is used instead of `x.exp_m1()`, and the examples for `ln_1p` would fail if `(x + 1.0).ln()` is used instead of `x.ln_1p()`.
