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Changes for version 0.12 - 2016-05-10

  • Decreased the default floating-point precision from 256 bits, to 200 bits.
  • Added support for specifying the default precision as an import value.
    • Example: use Math::BigNum PREC => 1024;
  • Fixed a minor-bug in the method `is_pow` for some special cases.
  • Minor POD fixes.

Modules

Arbitrary size precision for integers, rationals and floating-point numbers.
Represents the +/-Infinity value.
Represents the Not-a-Number value.