StrictRounding statement for floats #725
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This PR introduces a new
StrictRounding
statement that rounds floats to a specified precision. If no precision is given, the default precision is used. This can be useful to trim the extra precision used by GMP. This also resolves #698.Similar to the floating point precision, the precision in
StrictRounding
can be specified in digits or bits. For example:At the moment, the implementation makes use of the
GMP
functionsmpf_get_str
andmpf_set_str
. Maybe in the feature we can come up with our own algorithm to do the rounding?Example usage:
results in