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Current version: 2.04-alt2
Build date: 24 january 2007, 23:19 ( 901.5 weeks ago )
Size: 21.45 Kb
Home page: http://www.cpan.org
License: Artistic
Summary: High speed arbitrary size integer math
Description:
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Build date: 24 january 2007, 23:19 ( 901.5 weeks ago )
Size: 21.45 Kb
Home page: http://www.cpan.org
License: Artistic
Summary: High speed arbitrary size integer math
Description:
Math::GMP was designed to be a drop-in replacement both for
Math::BigInt and for regular integer arithmetic. Unlike BigInt,
though, Math::GMP uses the GNU gmp library for all of its
calculations, as opposed to straight Perl functions. This can result
in speed improvements.
The downside is that this module requires a C compiler to install -- a
small tradeoff in most cases. Also, this module is not 100% compatible
to Math::BigInt.
A Math::GMP object can be used just as a normal numeric scalar would
be -- the module overloads most of the normal arithmetic operators to
provide as seamless an interface as possible. However, if you need a
perfect interface, you can do the following:
use Math::GMP qw(:constant);
$n = 2 ** (256 * 1024);
print "n is $n\n";
This would fail without the ':constant' since Perl would use normal
doubles to compute the 250,000 bit number, and thereby overflow it
into meaninglessness (smaller exponents yield less accurate data due
to floating point rounding).
Current maintainer: Mikhail Pokidko Math::BigInt and for regular integer arithmetic. Unlike BigInt,
though, Math::GMP uses the GNU gmp library for all of its
calculations, as opposed to straight Perl functions. This can result
in speed improvements.
The downside is that this module requires a C compiler to install -- a
small tradeoff in most cases. Also, this module is not 100% compatible
to Math::BigInt.
A Math::GMP object can be used just as a normal numeric scalar would
be -- the module overloads most of the normal arithmetic operators to
provide as seamless an interface as possible. However, if you need a
perfect interface, you can do the following:
use Math::GMP qw(:constant);
$n = 2 ** (256 * 1024);
print "n is $n\n";
This would fail without the ':constant' since Perl would use normal
doubles to compute the 250,000 bit number, and thereby overflow it
into meaninglessness (smaller exponents yield less accurate data due
to floating point rounding).
List of contributors List of rpms provided by this srpm:
- perl-Math-GMP