Promotion of Irrationals

[jishnub]

julia> pi * Float64x4(2)
ERROR: MethodError: Cannot `convert` an object of type Irrational{:π} to an object of type NTuple{4, Float64}

Perhaps there might be a way to convert these to BigFloat and then to MultiFloats

julia> 2Float64x4(big(pi))
6.283185307179586476925286766559005768394338798750211641949889184604

[dzhang314]

Hey @jishnub , good catch! I totally overlooked this in my own testing. You're right, a conversion to BigFloat (with the precision set to the appropriate level) and then to MultiFloat is absolutely the right way to do it. I'll get this implemented in the next version of MultiFloats.jl.

[goulart-paul]

I hit the same problem. A fix could be something like:

function MultiFloat{T,N}(x::Union{Rational{S},Irrational{S}}) where {S,T,N}
    MultiFloat{T,N}(BigFloat(x; precision = precision(MultiFloat{T,N})))
end

then I get

Float64x2(π)
3.141592653589793238462643383279506

[dzhang314]

Hey everyone! It's been ages since I last looked at MultiFloats.jl, but I've finally pushed a fix for this in commit 02091e0.