Re: Finding bitprecision

[Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 10:50:26AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Should not there be O(1) way to find the current localbitprecision()?

> Yes, it is called getlocalbitprec().

As you could see from this mail thread, this name is not discoverable.¹⁾
Very few things in PARI need to be done using get*() functions!

      ¹⁾ This makes it similar to lngamma().

Why not do it like the other getters/setters, and make localbitprec()
return the current value?

Thanks,
Ilya

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