Package libgmp: Information

GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on
signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.  It has
a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface.

GNU MP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and
huge operands.  The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic
arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, with carefully optimized
assembly code for the most common inner loops for lots of CPUs, and by
a general emphasis on speed (instead of simplicity or elegance).

GNU MP is believed to be faster than any other similar library.
Its advantage increases with operand sizes for certain operations,
since GNU MP in many cases has asymptotically faster algorithms.

Package libgmp: Information

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