mpf_t and mpf_get_str

Torbjorn Granlund tg at swox.com
Tue Nov 20 15:30:44 CET 2007


  On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 14:57 +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
  > Your assumption that the mantissas are the same is not correct.

  Why not? Aren't mantissas stored in binary? Doesn't mpf_get_str provide
  all the available bits when using base 2? How can they be different?

As your example demonstrates, mpf_get_str does not provide all bits,
not even when output is in binary.

-- 
Torbjörn


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