in reply to Re^2: Storing more decimal places in a variable
in thread Storing more decimal places in a variable

now just to nag my webserver to install it...

It comes with the standard distribution, so you probably already have it. 

use Math::BigFloat;
Math::BigFloat->accuracy(200); 
$x = Math::BigFloat->new(2); 
print $x->bsqrt();

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