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Author	skrah
Recipients	cheryl.sabella, docs@python, jneb, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, vstinner
Date	2017-08-24.11:20:10
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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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).

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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Date	User	Action	Args
2017-08-24 11:20:10	skrah	set	recipients: + skrah, rhettinger, jneb, mark.dickinson, vstinner, docs@python, serhiy.storchaka, cheryl.sabella
2017-08-24 11:20:10	skrah	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2017-08-24 11:20:10	skrah	link	issue26256 messages
2017-08-24 11:20:10	skrah	create