June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
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.