cial">()</span></code> function earlier. I.e. a
                      fractional part of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="number">0.01234</span></code>
                      is represented as <code class="computeroutput"><span class="number">1234</span></code>
                      when the function <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">precision</span><span class="special">()</span></code> returned <code class="computeroutput"><span class="number">5</span></code>.
                 