> I also find it frustrating that both "prec" and "precision" are used
> as standard parameter names for either scale of precision all over the
> place.  It would be nice to standardise this.  And in addition, I
> propose a convention that we only use "prec" or "precision" to denote
> bit precisions, and use "prec10" or similar for decimal precision --
> the latter only to appear in the pari interface.

+1 -- but Magma is also decimal digits.

Nick

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