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Moin,

On Monday 28 February 2005 15:55, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>  Hi, I was wondering why there wasn't a C<no bignum> pragma? It seems a
>  logical compliment, like C<use integer> and C<no integer>.
> 
>  For instance I'd like to use bignum in conjunction with PDL to insure
>  maximum precision howver then even some of the arguments given to
>  piddle constructors are bignum objects and PDL complains. I can
>  manually add ->numify() but then it's ugly and no longer transparent.

There is a simple reason: It is not implemented yet.

To my astonishment, this actually works:

	perl -le 'print sqrt(123); { use bignum; print sqrt(123); } print 
sqrt(123); '

	11.0905365064094
	11.09053650640941716205160010260993291846
	11.0905365064094

I expected it to output 3 times the longer result. However, I am unsure 
what "no bignum" should do. Just turn of converting "123" into 
Math::BigInt-> new(123), or also add numify() to each MBI object? At which 
place should it do this?

Best wishes,

Tels

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