[M3devel] operator overloading?

[Henning Thielemann]

Tony Hosking schrieb:
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> On Nov 21, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Jay K wrote:
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>> > I'm now starting to wish that we had left LONGINT out,
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>> Just now? :)
>> (This is another reason I'm somewhat open to tediously using
>> Target.Int in frontend,
>> in case we do lose LONGINT.)
> 
> What it really suggests is that we need a proper infinite precision
> integer library.  Do we have one somewhere already?

I have coded BigInteger in arithmetic package. It is not tuned in any
way (no Fourier transform and such tricks) and may contain bugs. You may
better call GNU multi precision library GMP.