GMP from haskell

Hal Daume III hdaume@ISI.EDU
Wed, 29 May 2002 07:01:26 -0700 (PDT)


I should have been more specific :).  I was referring to the more
complicated things, such as Lucas numbers, Binomial coefficients, etc.

--
Hal Daume III

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  than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> Hal Daume III <hdaume@ISI.EDU> wrote,
> 
> > The gnu web page
> > (www.gnu.org/manual/gmp-4.0.1/html_node/gmp_70.html) claims that Haskell
> > (GHC) has bindings to GMP.  Is this true?  How can I access these
> > routines?
> 
> For example, by
> 
>   Prelude> 1 + 2 :: Integer
>   3
>   Prelude> 
> 
> GHC implements Haskell's arbitrary precision integers by way
> of GMP.
> 
> Cheers,
> Manuel
>