Re: Question on large integer software

Marc J. Mims (mmims@mindspring.com)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:14:06 -0400

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At 11:57 AM 7/27/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Does anybody have a library of large integer software, such as multiplying,
>dividing and exponentiating integers 500 to 1000 bits long or so, as well as
>software to generate and/or verify primality and suchlike???
>
>Freeware/shareware preferred, although reasonably priced software would be
>acceptable.

You don't mention a language or platform. Perl has a very capable large
integer module, Math::BigInteger. The module, like Perl itself is free and
runs on many platforms.

http://www.perl.com
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Math/

        -Marc

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