> Hal Daume III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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?
Some Haskell systems mention that they use GMP to implement many functions for Integer. There are open-source libraries: GMP, and some others (do not remember the names), written in C, implementing a lot of mathematics, advanced algorithms and programs designed by expert mathematicians, like say Lenstra. For example, the factorization function for Integer, and useful functions for algebraic numbers (if I recall correct) are available, not only for Integer. The advantage is also that these methods win many times in comparison to what the naive user writes in several lines of one's Haskell program. If the Haskell implementors take care of mathematician users, they could consider the possibility to arrange the interface to these functions and thus extend the library with many useful operations items (mainly, not of Haskell-98 standard). ----------------- Serge Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
