# The devel/gmp port

## gmp-5.0.2p2 – library for arbitrary precision arithmetic

## Description

    GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on
    signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.  It has a
    rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface.

    GNU MP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and
    for huge operands.  The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic
    arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, by carefully optimized assembly
    code for the most common inner loops for a lots of CPUs, and by a general
    emphasis on speed (instead of simplicity or elegance).

    The speed of GNU MP is believed to be faster than any other similar
    library. The advantage for GNU MP increases with the operand sizes for
    certain operations, since GNU MP in many cases has asymptotically faster
    algorithms.

    The mpfr library is no longer bundled with gmp, but exists as a separate
    package instead.

WWW: http://gmplib.org/

Categories:
  devel math

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