Adjust Ln method to prevent infinity iteration loops #357
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* Adjust Ln method to prevent infinity iteration loops * Add test case for infinity loop
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Small adjustment to the
Lnmethod. In extremely rare cases Halley's iteration method could oscillate and cause an infinity loop. We could prevent that by adding two guards - max iterations and step oscillation guards. This should resolve this edge case :3