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Make the default context equal to IEEE 754 quadruple precision.#72

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This PR replaces the current default context with IEEE 754 quadruple precision, so that:

  • users get extra precision out of the box (there's little value in the original 53-bit precision, since floats already provide that)
  • the exponent min and max are consistent across platforms (the previous values were based on the MPFR limits, which may vary across platforms).

Closes #17.

mdickinson added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 1, 2015
Make the default context equal to IEEE 754 quadruple precision.
@mdickinson mdickinson merged commit 8f87776 into master Nov 1, 2015
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