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mpdecimal - 4.0.1

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO 

NAME

mpdecimal − 4.0.1

SYNOPSIS

C/C++ libraries for correctly rounded arbitrary precision decimal floating-
point arithmetic.

DESCRIPTION

The libmpdec and libmpdec++ libraries fully implement the General Decimal
Arithmetic Specification, see:

https://speleotrove.com/decimal/decarith.html

As described in the scope section of the specification, the libraries conform
− with minor restrictions − to the IEEE 754−2008 Standard for Floating−Point
Arithmetic if the context is initialized with the appropriate parameters.

Depending on the distribution, complete HTML documentation is available in the
mpdecimal-doc
package or at:

https://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/index.html

SEE ALSO

libmpdec.3, libmpdec++.3


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