gmp

Peter Hercek phercek at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 12:36:34 EST 2008


Christian Maeder wrote:
> I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the
> Prelude with Double and Integer.

Why is GMP needed for Double? Based on the online report Double is
  "double precision floating"; it does not need to represent arbitrary
  big numbers.
I thought it is there only for Integers and Rationals.

Peter.



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