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The + class is intended to be a drop-in replacement for the "real" NTL::RR + that adds some syntactic sugar to keep this library happy, plus some of the + standard library functions not implemented in NTL. + </p> +<p> + For those functions that are based upon the <a class="link" href="../backgrounders/lanczos.html" title="The Lanczos Approximation">Lanczos + approximation</a>, the bindings defines a series of approximations with + up to 61 terms and accuracy up to approximately 3e-113. This therefore sets + the upper limit for accuracy to the majority of functions defined this library + when used with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">NTL</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">RR</span></code>. + </p> +<p> + There is a concept checking test program for NTL support <a href="../../../../../../../libs/math/test/ntl_concept_check.cpp" target="_top">here</a>. + </p> +</div> +<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> +<td align="left"></td> +<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2006-2010 John Maddock, Paul A. Bristow, Hubert Holin, Xiaogang Zhang, Bruno + Lalande, Johan Råde, Gautam Sewani and Thijs van den Berg<p> + Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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