id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 4504 Error in computation of Student's t distribution quantiles Peter Hepperger John Maddock "When using a students_t_distribution with a non-integer parameter slightly larger than 2, e.g. students_t_distribution s(2.001), then the computation of the quantile(s, p) yields completely wrong results for certain values of p. For example: quantile(s,0.57) yields 536.146. The correct value is somewhere around 0.2. If the degrees of freedom parameter is set to exactly 2 or slightly smaller, the results are correct. " Bugs closed Boost 1.44.0 math Boost 1.44.0 Problem fixed