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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions,sci.math
Subject: Re: Wanted: arbitrary precision integer arithmetic
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Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 23:41:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  2 23:41:08 1986
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Keywords: arbitrary precision integer arithmetic
Summary: included in unix
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In article <4056@jhunix.UUCP> msc_wers@jhunix.UUCP (Edward R Scheinerman) writes:
>
>I am looking for subroutines that do basic arithmetic
>(plus, minus, times, divide, modulus, input and output) with
>very high (or even arbitrary) precision integers (up to about
>200 digits). My preference is for C code (that will run under
>UNIX System V), but FORTRAN is an acceptible alternative.

The MP(3X) library routines, included in UNIX, do all this and more.

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