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GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating
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on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.
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There is no limit to the precision except the ones implied by the
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available memory in the machine GMP runs on. GMP has a rich set of
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functions, and the functions have a regular interface.
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GMP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands
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and for huge operands. The speed is achieved by using fullwords as
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the basic arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, with carefully
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optimized assembly code for the most common inner loops for a lot of
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CPUs, and by a general emphasis on speed (instead of simplicity or
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elegance).
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GMP is believed to be faster than any other similar library. The
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advantage for GMP increases with the operand sizes for certain
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operations, since GMP in many cases has asymptotically faster
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algorithms.
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WWW: http://www.swox.com/gmp/
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- Alex Dupre
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ale@FreeBSD.org
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