2 Ruby BIGDECIMAL(Variable Precision) extension library.
3 Copyright (C) 1999 by Shigeo Kobayashi(shigeo@tinyforest.gr.jp)
5 BigDecimal is copyrighted free software by Shigeo Kobayashi <shigeo@tinyforest.gr.jp>.
6 You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
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60 created at: Thu Dec 22 1999