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Compat annotation for #29157 (precision as a kwarg to BigFloat).
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fredrikekre committed Dec 1, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ global precision; `convert` will always return `x`.
convenience since decimal literals are converted to `Float64` when parsed, so
`BigFloat(2.1)` may not yield what you expect.
!!! compat "Julia 1.1"
`precision` as a keyword argument requires at least Julia 1.1.
In Julia 1.0 `precision` is the second positional argument (`BigFloat(x, precision)`).
# Examples
```jldoctest
julia> BigFloat(2.1) # 2.1 here is a Float64
2.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625
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