                GNU MP, version 2.0.2
         Copyright (c) Free Software Foundation

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[Introduction]
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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 lot 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.


[Documentation & Website]
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The GNU MP homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gmp/gmp.html

The GNU MP online manual is available at:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/gmp/index.html