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Provides methods that permit use of floating-point numbers of arbitrary length. The following apply to all methods, except as noted:
The object $f remains unchanged.
All methods except fcmp return a number string (nstr) of the form /[+-]\d+E[+-]\d+/, with embedded whitespace ignored.
A return value of NaN indicates that either an input parameter was "Not a Number" or that an illegal operation was attempted.
A similar default scale value is computed for square roots.
| new |
$f = Math::BigFloat->new(string)
Creates a new object, $f.
| fabs |
$f->fabs( )
Returns absolute value of $f.
| fadd |
$f->fadd(nstr)
Returns sum of nstr and $f.
| fcmp |
$f->fcmp(nstr)
Compares $f to nstr. Returns -1, 0, or 1 depending on whether $f is less than, equal to, or greater than nstr, or undef if nstr is not a number.
| fdiv |
$f->fdiv(nstr[,n])
Returns $f divided by nstr to nplaces. If scale (the number of digits) is unspecified, division is computed to the number of digits given by:
max($div_scale, length(dividend)+length(divisor))
| ffround |
$f->ffround(n)
Returns $f rounded at nth place.
| fmul |
$f->fmul(nstr)
Returns $f multiplied by nstr.
| fneg |
$f->fneg( )
Returns negative of $f.
| fnorm |
$f->fnorm( )
Returns normalization of $f.
| fround |
$f->fround(n)
Returns value of $frounded to n digits.
| fsqrt |
$f->fsqrt([n])
Returns square root of $f to n places.
| fsub |
$f->fsub(nstr)
Returns $f minus nstr.
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