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* Installing bigfloat on Mac OS X [#j2f931e8]
** About bigfloat [#v55fdb58]
bigfloat is a Python extension module, which provides arbitrary-precision correctly-rounded binary floating-point arithmetic. This Python module is designed to work for the MPFR library.
For the details, please visit the URL shown below.
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bigfloat is a Python extension module, which provides arbitrary-precision correctly-rounded binary floating-point arithmetic. This Python module is designed to work for the MPFR library.~
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For the details, please visit the URL shown below.~
[[https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bigfloat/0.3.0a2]]~

** Installing bigfloat on Mac OS X [#v7bb896f]
To install bigfloat, pip is required. Please install pip before starting this installation process. In this article, Mac OS X 10.9.3 is used.
The command for installing bigfloat and installation process are shown below.
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To install bigfloat, [[pip>https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip]] is required. Please install pip before starting this installation process. The details of how to install pip, please visit [[this page.>https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html]] In this article, Mac OS X 10.9.3 is used.~
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The command for installing bigfloat and installation process are shown below.~
 $ sudo pip install bigfloat
 Downloading/unpacking bigfloat
   Downloading bigfloat-0.2.1.tar.gz (129kB): 129kB downloaded
   Running setup.py (path:/private/tmp/pip_build_root/bigfloat/setup.py) egg_info for package bigfloat
      
 Installing collected packages: bigfloat
   Running setup.py install for bigfloat
     
 Successfully installed bigfloat
 Cleaning up...

To examine whether the installation process is successful or not, please try a sample program, which is listed on <url>the page of bigfloat</url>. This article tests a sample program called a quick tour.
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To examine whether the installation process is successful or not, please try a sample program, which is listed on [[the page of bigfloat>https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bigfloat/0.3.0a2]]. This article tests a sample program called a quick tour.
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 $ python
 Python 2.7.5 (default, Mar  9 2014, 22:15:05) 
 [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from bigfloat import *
 >>> BigFloat(1)
 BigFloat.exact('1.0000000000000000', precision=53)
 >>> BigFloat('3.141592')
 BigFloat.exact('3.1415920000000002', precision=53)
 >>> BigFloat('3.14159') ** 2 / 6.0
 BigFloat.exact('1.6449312880166664', precision=53)
 >>> BigFloat('0.1',precision(200))
 BigFloat.exact('0.10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002', precision=200)
 >>> with precision(10000):
 ...     print sqrt(2)
 ... 
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 >>>
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if you obtain the same results as shown above, bigfloat has been successfully installed.

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