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12. GMP (GNU Multiprecision Library)

Berik I. Tuleuov¹   and Ademi B. Ospanova²

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Nur-Sultan, Akmolinskaia, Kazakhstan

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Nur-Sułtan, Kazakhstan

 

GNU Multiprecision Library (GMP) is a free arbitrary-precision arithmetic library for working with signed integers, rationals, and floating-point numbers. In practice, the accuracy is limited only by the available memory on the computer where this library is used.

It has a rich feature set with an intuitive interface, mainly used in cryptographic applications and research, Internet-related applications, computer algebra ...