Chris, That package is no longer supported and it is missing division, sqrt ..
Would a double-double type supporting (+),(-),(*),(sqrt) suffice for your work? I have written that as part of something else, and am willing to separate it out for others to use. Jeffrey On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 5:15:33 PM UTC-5, Christopher Alexander wrote: > > I looked into using BigFloat, but the overhead majorly slowed everything > down. I saw there was a package DoubleDouble that was supposed to do that > level of precision but without the overhead, but it doesn't seem to have > been updated and I couldn't get it to work with 0.4.2. Maybe I could try > to get it up to speed. > > Chris > > On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 5:05:23 PM UTC-5, Stephan Buchert wrote: >> >> In Julia there would be also BigFloat: >> >> julia> x=parse(BigFloat, "1.052500000000004") >> >> 1.052500000000003999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999994 >> >> julia> x^6.0-x^6 >> >> 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 >> >
