thanks, I think I found the problem -- my float() function should force
Float64
On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 4:36:53 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>
> I thought I could specialize fix_dec(), the catchall is something like
> `fix_dec(x::AbstractFloat, n::Int)` and I had intended to define
> `fix_dec{P}(x::ArbFloat{P}, n::Int)`.
>
> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 4:31:37 PM UTC-4, Yichao Yu wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I got this error
>> > ERROR: StackOverflowError:
>> > in fix_dec(::ArbFloats.ArbFloat{116}, ::Int64) at ./printf.jl:932
>> (repeats
>> > 80000 times)
>> >
>> >
>> > I tried to import Base.fix_dec, Core.fix_dec to override the definition
>> --
>> > neither worked.
>>
>> What are you trying to override?
>> Overriding a definition and calling the old on in it isn't supported.
>>
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