From: Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@...>
Date: 2010-07-01T10:46:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Increase significant digits in Float

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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Javier Goizueta <jgoizueta@gmail.com>wrote:

> You may also want to take a look at http://flt.rubyforge.org/
>
> It's an implementation of arbitrary precision floating point numbers
> (decimal and binary). If you don't need it to be fast it has some
> advantages over BigDecimal.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
Also: I recall a short thread from December 2008:
Proposing an arbitrary precision class building on BigDecimal and being
derived from Numeric
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/322100
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/322174 and
subsequent
  or as a user friendly all in one place:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/66f505b9460464cc/e9a0142b118d66a8?q=
  with links to:
https://rubyforge.org/projects/appmath/
http://appmath.rubyforge.org/
http://www.ulrichmutze.de/index.html

(I should observe that I haven't tried this code: I simply made a mental
note at the time of the thread that it might be useful.)

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