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improve BigFloat documentation #7535

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alanedelman opened this issue Jul 7, 2014 · 5 comments
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improve BigFloat documentation #7535

alanedelman opened this issue Jul 7, 2014 · 5 comments
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It would be good if there were pointers to
set_bigfloat_precision and
get_bigfloat_precision

and a word about whether one can only have one precision active at a time
conveniently
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quinnj commented Jul 7, 2014

Alan, do you mean to mention the above methods in this section of the manual?

@JeffBezanson JeffBezanson changed the title BigFloat documentation improve BigFloat documentation Jul 27, 2014
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I think the explanation needs to be a bit more detailed, discuss the defaults, etc.

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tkelman commented Dec 22, 2016

did #13232 close this? cc @dpsanders

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It appears the documentation in #13232 is not sufficient to close this.

@ViralBShah ViralBShah added the good first issue Indicates a good issue for first-time contributors to Julia label Dec 22, 2016
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https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1.9-dev/manual/integers-and-floating-point-numbers/#Arbitrary-Precision-Arithmetic

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