Multiple Precision Integers and Rationals (MPIR) is an

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forked from the

GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) is a free software, free library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, operating on Sign (mathematics), signed integers, Rational data type, rational numbers, and Floating-point arithmetic, floating-p ...

(GMP) project. It consists of much code from past GMP releases, and some original contributed code. According to the MPIR-devel mailing list, "MPIR is no longer maintained", except for building the old code on Windows using new versions of Microsoft Visual Studio. According to the MPIR developers, some of the main goals of the MPIR project were: * Maintaining

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with GMP – so that MPIR can be used as a replacement for GMP. * Providing build support for

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MPIR using Microsoft based build tools for use in 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows. MPIR is optimized for many processors (CPUs).

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code exists for these : ARM, DEC Alpha 21064, 21164, and 21264, AMD K6, K6-2, Athlon, K8 and K10, Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro-II-III, Pentium 4, generic x86, Intel IA-64, Core 2, i7, Atom, Motorola-IBM PowerPC 32 and 64, MIPS R3000, R4000, SPARCv7, SuperSPARC, generic SPARCv8, UltraSPARC.

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GMP
— official site of ''GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library''
MPFR
— official site of ''GNU Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliably'' {{data types C (programming language) libraries Computer arithmetic Computer arithmetic algorithms Free software programmed in C Numerical software

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