From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T13:27:53+09:00
Subject: Re: BigDecimal#sqrt

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> Let me try asking me question a different way...  Is this the correct  
> way to get a printable sqrt() with 16 digits precision?
> 
>  >> sprintf "%.16f", BigDecimal.new("66543").sqrt(16)
> => "257.9592991151890260"

Yes.

I've written some documentation for BigDecimal which will hopefully be 
checked in to Ruby some time.


mathew
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