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From: Jean-Christophe Filliatre <filliatr@lri.fr>
To: "Scott J." <jscott@skynet.be>
Cc: "caml-list" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] arbitrarily large integers
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:00:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15852.43744.262829.342309@lri.lri.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005801c29a9f$3f41f540$b48afea9@janxp>


Scott J. writes:
 > Hi, is it possible to implement in OCamel arbitrary large integers as in Dolphin smalltalk e.g. where e.g. 
 > factorial 10000 is evaluatedvery fast.

The  Num  library  delivered  with ocaml  implements  arbitrary  large
naturals, integers and rationals. 
See http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/manual036.html

There are also

- an interface of the GNU MP library, by David Monniaux, at 
  http://www.di.ens.fr/~monniaux/download/mlgmp-20021123.tar.gz

- The Numerix library by Michel Quercia, at
  http://pauillac.inria.fr/~quercia/

Hope this helps,
-- 
Jean-Christophe 

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-03 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-03  7:40 Scott J.
2002-12-03 13:00 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre [this message]
2002-12-03 18:23 ` Alain.Frisch
2002-12-03  9:47 Yann Régis-Gianas

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