I would have hoped that zero and one would generate a BigFloat with the same precision as its argument. julia> precision(zero(BigFloat(1, 1000))) 256 julia> precision(one(BigFloat(1, 1000))) 256 Is this a bug?

Zero and one do not respect precision of BigFloat

kristoffer.carlsson August 23, 2018, 12:37pm 3

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