Quadruple joins the fight!

A few days ago I wrote about benchmarking arbitrary precision floating-point libraries in Java . I found out that BigDecimal is not as slow as it is said to be, beating Apfloat at the same precision level by a long margin in most operations. However, for Gaia Sky , I don&rsquo;t need hundreds of significant digits at all. It turns out 27 significant digits are enough to represent the whole…