From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T22:42:08+09:00
Subject: Re: BigDecimal#sqrt

On Dec 27, 2005, at 10:27 PM, mathew wrote:

> 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.

Is it available online anywhere before then or could I trouble you to  
send it to me privately?

James Edward Gray II