Re: Perl, BigInts/BigFloats and GMP

2009-05-12 Thread Sisyphus
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Leto jal...@gmail.com To: module-authors@perl.org Cc: Bob Kuo bobj...@gmail.com; Sisyphus sisyph...@optusnet.com.au Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Perl, BigInts/BigFloats and GMP Howdy, To my extreme enjoyment, I found out

Re: Perl, BigInts/BigFloats and GMP

2009-05-11 Thread Jonathan Leto
Howdy, To my extreme enjoyment, I found out that someone has already taken the burden of creating a full interface to the GMP integer functions in the form of Math::GMPz [1]. There is also Math::GMPf and Math::GMPq, in case you were wondering. Cheers, [1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-GMPz/

Perl, BigInts/BigFloats and GMP

2009-05-01 Thread Jonathan Leto
Howdy, I want to give Perl full access to the GMP library [1] and I am making that happen so that these routines can be used by Crypto::* and Math::* modules. The ultimate goal of this is so that the Crypt::* namespace will not depend on Math::Pari. The first step on this path is Math::Primality