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With Math::MPFR, setting a default precision of 10000, means you have 10000 bits of precision, not 10000 decimal digits of precision.

Doh! You are right, I was wondering last night why I was getting a 1/3 factor of digits. 10000 gave me ~ 3000 decimal places, while 100000 precision gave me ~30000 decimal places. I thought it might be the print accuracy needed to do the inverse, but I was wrong. Thanks for clearly that up. :-)

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