JDK 9 RFR of JDK-7130085 Port fdlibm hypot to Java

[Brian Burkhalter]

Dawid,

Multi-precision is one of several more or less interchangeable terms to indicate that the precision of a value is limited by the amount of memory available as opposed to the size of the primitive data type. For example in the case of Java, large integers are represented internally to the BigInteger class by arrays of integral values. See for example [1] for more information and links.

Regards,

Brian

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision_arithmetic

On Sep 21, 2015, at 11:51 PM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.weiss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not that I understand the math behind it, but out of curiosity I
> looked and spotted a typo in:
> 
>> muti-precision
> 
> (unless it's some kind of complex IEEE-approved jargon for something I
> have no idea about :).