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Author skrah
Recipients BTaskaya, mark.dickinson, skrah, tim.peters, veky
Date 2020-02-07.15:35:16
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MAX_PREC is chosen so that 5*MAX_PREC does not overflow 32-bit or 64-bit signed integers. This eliminates many overflow checks for the exponent.

Updating the exponent is (perhaps surprisingly) quite performance sensitive, that's why the 32-bit build does not use a 64-bit exponent.
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