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Documentation of class 'LargeFloat':

Class: LargeFloat

Inheritance
Description
Related information
Examples

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Magnitude
      |
      +--ArithmeticValue
         |
         +--Number
            |
            +--LimitedPrecisionReal
               |
               +--LargeFloat

Package:: stx:libbasic

Category:: Magnitude-Numbers

Version:: rev: ? date: ? ?; user: ?; file: ? directory: libbasic; module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Author:: Claus Gittinger

Description:

Experimental Code.
The implementation is neither complete nor tuned for performance - still being developed.

This class provides arbitrary precision floats. These are represented as:
  exponent,
  mantissa

Related information:

    Number
    Float
    LongFloat
    ShortFloat
    Fraction
    FixedPoint
    SmallInteger
    LargeInteger

(1 to:1000) inject:1 asLargeFloat into:[:p :m | p * m] (1 to:1000) inject:1 into:[:p :m | p * m] Time millisecondsToRun:[ (1 to:20000) inject:1 asLargeFloat into:[:p :m | p * m] ] Time millisecondsToRun:[ (1 to:20000) inject:1 into:[:p :m | p * m] ]