ly negligible. The optimisation speed-up
            of the <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=210111" target="_top">TOMS
            Algorithm 748: enclosing zeros of continuous functions</a> was especially
            noticable.
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            Using a multiprecision type like <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cpp_bin_float_50</span></code>
            for a precision of 50 decimal digits took a lot longer, as expected because
            m