multiprecision

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English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ precision.

Adjective

multiprecision (not comparable)

  1. Involving more than one level of mathematical precision.
    • 2016, Vassilis S. Geroyannis, Vasileios G. Karageorgopoulos, “A parallel code for multiprecision computations of the Lane-Emden differential equation”, in arXiv:
      Since such multiprecision computations are time-consuming, we apply to this problem parallel programming techniques and thus the execution time of the computations is drastically reduced.