Release Name: pre-alpha-0.12

Notes: This version is functionally identically with the previous pre-alpha-0.11, but it has some more tests and it fixes a bug for the precision when calculating powers with high exponents. You can consider this version complete in terms of functionality. Most methods are documented with rdoc-comments and there are no known bugs. But more tests need to be added and bugs which will be detected with these tests would have to be fixed. Installation instructions for Linux or Unix: To install download the tar.gz-file and unpack it using tar xfzvv long-decimal-pre-alpha-0_12.tar.gz This will create a sub directory long-decimal. (On windows-machines you might want to use WinZip to unpack the tar.gz-file instead of tar, if you don\\\'t have tar) Change to this directory. Now you have the following options: - just copy longdecimal.rb to the directory where you want it and use it with load \\\"longdecimal.rb\\\" - install to site-ruby by rake install (possibly you have to become root first) after this you can use it with require \\\"longdecimal\\\" - create the documentation (which would be available for download in a separate tar.gz-file instead) rake doc - create a gem (experimental, would be available for download as well) rake gem So the gem-file and the tar.gz for documentation can be entirely created from the source-tar.gz-file, if you have the tools installed. Support for gem-files is still experimental. This version is still *PRE*-alpha.