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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Subject: Re: Gnu Multi-precision Package (GMP):
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.031624.16602@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <2258@sousa.tay.dec.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:16:24 GMT
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- perkins@tallis.enet.dec.com (Eric Perkins) writes:
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- >Has anyone used the Gnu Multi-precious Package (GMP)?
- >I have been trying to use it and have had not end of trouble
- >trying to get simple things to work.
-
- >If anyone else has tried it I would be curious to know if they
- >find it is working or not.
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- I've used it and it seemed to work ok.
- Could I (we) see your program.
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- >Are there any other multi-precision packages out there in the public
- >domain?
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- There are a couple of C++ implementations.
- I'm just looking at one in the C++ Answer Book, by Tony Hansen;
- Exercise 6.11 reads,
- "Define a class implementing arbitrary precision arithmetic."
- (The code from this book is available by anon FTP,
- from research.att.com [username: netlib]
- directory c++/answerbook .
- Nb There is a lot of it!)
-
- C++ seems the natural language for this,
- with operator overloading to allow sums
- to be written as x+y, etc.
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- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
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