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author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Wed May 18 07:14:08 2022 +0100 (2022-05-18) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/mpfr/description.txt Wed May 18 07:14:08 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ 1.4 +The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point 1.5 +computations with correct rounding. 1.6 +MPFR has continuously been supported by the INRIA and the current main 1.7 +authors come from the Caramba and AriC project-teams at Loria 1.8 +(Nancy, France) and LIP (Lyon, France) respectively. 1.9 +MPFR is based on the GMP multiple-precision library. 1.10 + 1.11 +The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision 1.12 +floating-point computation which is both efficient and has a 1.13 +well-defined semantics. 1.14 +It copies the good ideas from the ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for 1.15 +double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit significand).