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Diffstat (limited to 'dist/Math-BigInt/lib/Math/BigInt.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | dist/Math-BigInt/lib/Math/BigInt.pm | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/dist/Math-BigInt/lib/Math/BigInt.pm b/dist/Math-BigInt/lib/Math/BigInt.pm index b673bf1517..9eaad0d95d 100644 --- a/dist/Math-BigInt/lib/Math/BigInt.pm +++ b/dist/Math-BigInt/lib/Math/BigInt.pm @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ use vars qw/$round_mode $accuracy $precision $div_scale $rnd_mode use strict; # Inside overload, the first arg is always an object. If the original code had -# it reversed (like $x = 2 * $y), then the third paramater is true. +# it reversed (like $x = 2 * $y), then the third parameter is true. # In some cases (like add, $x = $x + 2 is the same as $x = 2 + $x) this makes # no difference, but in some cases it does. @@ -4160,7 +4160,7 @@ versions <= 5.7.2) is like this: =item Accuracy (significant digits) * fround($a) rounds to $a significant digits - * only fdiv() and fsqrt() take A as (optional) paramater + * only fdiv() and fsqrt() take A as (optional) parameter + other operations simply create the same number (fneg etc), or more (fmul) of digits + rounding/truncating is only done when explicitly calling one of fround @@ -4418,7 +4418,7 @@ These all might have problems handling infinity right. =head1 INTERNALS -The actual numbers are stored as unsigned big integers (with seperate sign). +The actual numbers are stored as unsigned big integers (with separate sign). You should neither care about nor depend on the internal representation; it might change without notice. Use B<ONLY> method calls like C<< $x->sign(); >> @@ -4465,7 +4465,7 @@ small numbers (less than about 20 digits) and when converting very large numbers to decimal (for instance for printing, rounding, calculating their length in decimal etc). -So please select carefully what libary you want to use. +So please select carefully what library you want to use. Different low-level libraries use different formats to store the numbers. However, you should B<NOT> depend on the number having a specific format |