When I take the sqrt of a BigFloat of 0.9999, the program hangs and the CPU utilization pegs to 99%.   If I sqrt the value as a string, it works.   Is this a sqrt bug for BigFloats greater than 0, but less than 1?

Here's my code:

#!/tool/pandora/bin/perl5.8.0

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Math::BigFloat;

print "sqrt(0.96303) = ".sqrt(0.96303)."\n";

my $value = Math::BigFloat->new();
$value += 0.9999;

print "value = ".Dumper($value);
my $sqrt_value = sqrt("$value");  #Works because $value is converted t
+o a string.
print "Stringified BigFloat sqrt($value) = $sqrt_value\n";

$sqrt_value = sqrt($value);  #Hangs here because $value is less than 1
+.  99% CPU utilization
print "BigFloat sqrt($value) = $sqrt_value\n";

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