Infinite-precision arithmetic

Victor Eijkhout eijkhout at cs.utk.edu
Wed May 25 10:54:13 EDT 2005


On May 24, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Cubist at aol.com wrote:

>> Doesn't the Gnu Scientific Library have this stuff?
>    No. While the GSL includes an admirably wide range of functions 
> (and I may
> steal some of their algorithms...), every last one of them is of 
> strictly
> *finite* precision, i.e. it's only good for a *finite* number of 
> places of
> accuracy. See above for the whole point of what I'm doing here.
>

Ok, how abou the Gnu Multi-Precision library: http://www.swox.com/gmp/

I thought it was part of GSL.

V.



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