Questions on the arbitrary precision capabilities of Mathematica.

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Meaning of backtick in floating-point literal

If I compute, say, 1/3//N, Mathematica displays 0.333333 as the result. When I copy that output to use elsewhere, the paste ...
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Manipulating an arbitrary-precision ContourPlot

I have a function, say minimizeme[ω_][β_][ϵ_] = ϵ^2 ω-Log[2 (Cosh[2 β]+Cosh[2 β ϵ])]/(2 β); I want to make a high-precision dynamic ...
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Adding precision for the calculation of a function

I have some function $f(x)$ I wish to evaluate, which is yielding divide-by-zero errors for sufficiently large inputs. How do I increase the precision with which this function is evaluated in order ...