Re^3: Efficiently working with huge exponents (yeah)

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Re^4: Efficiently working with huge exponents (yeah) by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 22, 2015 at 01:14 UTC
... I'll probably just use Math::BigApprox for my current need ... When the original post first appeared, I didn't notice any mention of perfect precision not being desired. Was that part of the post always there ? Anyway, just to correct my original reply to cater for perfect precision not being required: `perl -MMath::MPFR=:mpfr -le "Rmpfr_set_default_prec(28);print Math::MP +FR->new(2) ** 1024000;" 5.194693363e308254` [download] (In Math::MPFR, precision is specified in bits.) You can specify precision for your Math::BigFloat numbers, too - it's in the docs. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Efficiently working with huge exponents (yeah) by wanna_code_perl (Friar) on Mar 22, 2015 at 13:04 UTC
When the original post first appeared, I didn't notice any mention of perfect precision not being desired. Was that part of the post always there ? Yes it was, and if it wasn't, I'd have clearly annotated the change. Thanks for the updated tip!	[reply]