> Q) Does this affect the overall precision of the floating point math? > > I am ignorant of the internals, but that sort of concern seems to be the > sort of thing lay-folk who are simply using the library would care about, > and so I'm just looking for some kind of assurance the rounding is not > *premature* rounding. The code already rounds to $scale+4 digits, in other cases which involve more intermediate computation, so using four extra digits in this case, should not make things any worse than they already are. I am working on a test program to check blog() more throughly. --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124382