From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA31521; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:09:00 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA31872 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:08:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from lri.lri.fr (lri.lri.fr [129.175.15.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gB3D8xX27306 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:08:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from pc8-123 (mail@pc8-123 [129.175.8.123]) by lri.lri.fr (8.11.6/jtpda-5.3.2) with ESMTP id gB3D0GR21933 ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:00:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from filliatr by pc8-123 with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JCeu-0006KV-00; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:00:16 +0100 From: Jean-Christophe Filliatre MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15852.43744.262829.342309@lri.lri.fr> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:00:16 +0100 To: "Scott J." Cc: "caml-list" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] arbitrarily large integers In-Reply-To: <005801c29a9f$3f41f540$b48afea9@janxp> References: <005801c29a9f$3f41f540$b48afea9@janxp> X-Mailer: VM 6.93 under Emacs 20.7.2 Reply-To: Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr (Jean-Christophe Filliatre) X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners