Stefan Krah added the comment:

What needs to be mentioned though is that the context has to be set
for unrounded calculations:

c = getcontext()
c.prec = MAX_PREC
c.Emax = MAX_EMAX
c.Emin = MIN_EMIN


Otherwise some people believe that the bignums are just rounded floating point 
arithmetic that is expected to be fast (I've seen this misconception somewhere, 
perhaps on Stackoverflow).

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