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From: Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: higher precision doubles
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:09:24 +0200
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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