I will send bibliographic references on the weekend
to provide a literary context for the documentation.
Hi John, Here is the Bibliography for much of my R&D on big numbs. Don't know if you want it for the docs. But here it is anyway. Best regards, Chris J. Arndt and C. Haenel "Pi Unleashed" Springer, Heidelberg, 2001 ISBN 3-540-66572-2 F. Bornemann, D. Laurie, S. Wagon and J. Waldvogel, "The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge: A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing" Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics SIAM (TM), Philadelphia, 2004. ISBN 0-898-71561-X J. M. Borwein and P. Borwein "Pi and the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity" John Wiley, New York, 1998 ISBN 0-471-83138-7, Paperback R. Brent and P. Zimmermann "Modern Computer Arithmetic" Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011 ISBN 978-0-521-19469-3 L. Fousse, G. Hanrot, V. Lefevre, P. Pelissier and P. Zimmermann "MPFR: A Multiple-Precision Binary Floating-Point Library With Correct Rounding" ACM ACM Trans. Math. Soft., Vol. 33, Issue 2 ACM, 2007 A. Gil, J. Segura and N. M. Temme, "Numerical Methods for Special Functions" Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics SIAM (TM), Philadelphia, 2007 ISBN 978-0-898-71634-4 J. M. Muller "Elementary Functions: Algorithms and Implementation", 2nd Edn. Birkhaeuser, Boston, 2006 ISBN 978-0-817-64372-0 J. M. Muller, N. Brisebarre, F. de Dinechin, C. M. Jeannerod, V. Lefevre, G. Melquiond, N. Revol, D. Stehle and T. Torres "Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic" Birkhaeuser, Boston, 2010 ISBN 978-0-817-64704-9 C. M. Kormanyos "Algorithm 910: A Portable C++ Multiple-Precision System for Special-Function Calculations" ACM ACM Trans. Math. Soft., Vol. 37, Issue 4 ACM, 2011 D. E. Knuth "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3 Seminumerical Algorithms", 3rd edn. Addison Wesley, 1998