mpfr

[Vincent Lefevre]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:26:48 -0700, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> What keeps mpfr from replacing mpf ? Taking a quick look at the
> mpfr, I find that it provides several things that mpf doesn't have.
> For example
>     - exception handling for overflow, underflow
>     - rounding mode
>     - extra routines like sin, cos, log, etc

But note that overflow/underflow is very partially supported for
the moment. In most extra functions, "limit" cases (i.e. those
involving very large or very small numbers) may give unexpected
results.

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