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Re: higher precision doubles

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Jan Burse schrieb:
> There is a max extra precision, which is needed in the
> evaluation function N[.,.]. BigDecimal does not know about
> evaluation functions.

But the MathContext parameter in add(), mul(), etc.. of BigDecimal
is very similar to N[.,.] for these operations. But a library for
sin(), exp(), ... with a MathContext parameter would be nice.

Bye

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Re: higher precision doubles "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> - 2011-09-10 21:53 -0700
  Re: higher precision doubles Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 22:22 -0700
    Re: higher precision doubles "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-09-11 05:36 -0400
    Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-11 13:29 +0200
      Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-11 13:50 +0200
        Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-11 14:09 +0200
  Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-09-11 10:59 +0200

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