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From: Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: higher precision doubles
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Jan Burse schrieb:
> Patricia Shanahan schrieb:
>
> I gave Math.sin(2*Math.PI) only as an example of what I
> eventually want to do with the higer precision floats.
> But since I do not have the higher precision floats, I
> showed how the myHighPrecPackage.sin(2*myHighPrecPackage.PI)
> would work with normal precision.

Well I probably would need another test case for whether
strictfp influences Math.sin. Since I guess Math.PI is
always the same, with or without strictfp. Will try
something..