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From: horstman@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted,sci.math
Subject: Re: Multi Precision Math
Message-ID: <1989Dec19.040647.1575@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 04:06:47 GMT
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In article <1989Dec18.051009.1313@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> mitch@alpha.ces.cwru.edu (Mitchell N. Perilstein) writes:
>Does anyone know about a multiple precision arithmetic library?  Yea, I've
>got `mp', but something more flexible and better documented is required.
>Wasn't it in mod.sources ages back?
>
>Thanks in advance for your reply.  				
>Mitch

There is a very nice library in T.Hansen, "C++ Answer Book", Addison-Wesley
1990 (!)

C++ is really nice for that kind of stuff because of the operator overloading.
It is a lot more fun to write 
	Bignum x,y;
	... x+y

than bignum_add( x, y ). I wrote some code to deal with polynomials over
finite fields and, since one can overload the () operator, it even makes
sense to write
	Poly f;
	Elem a;
	... f(a)...
Cay