Math::BigFloat
Provides methods that permit use of floating-point numbers of arbitrary length. The following apply to all methods, except as noted:
The object
$
f
remains unchanged.All methods except
fcmp
return a number string (nstr
) of the form/[+-]\d+E[+-]\d+/
, with embedded whitespace ignored.A return value of
NaN
indicates that either an input parameter was “Not a Number” or that an illegal operation was attempted.A similar default scale value is computed for square roots.
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