[mpir-devel] Re: Something else that may be helpful...

2008-12-31 Thread user923005
On Dec 31, 3:14 am, "Bill Hart" wrote: > Would this be mainly useful for computing transcendental functions? > > If so there is a package called mpfr (and a similar one for complex > numbers called mpc) which are the caconical places for such functions. > > Of course I am not very imaginative, so

[mpir-devel] CUDA development box online

2008-12-31 Thread mabshoff
Hello folks, after some hardware trouble and the weather throwing us a curve ball [snow storms aren't good for package delivery ;)] the CUDA box mentioned a while ago is finally online: mabsh...@cuda1:~$ cudafe --V cudafe: NVIDIA (R) Cuda Language Front End Portions Copyright (c) 2005-2006 NVIDI

[mpir-devel] Re: Something else that may be helpful...

2008-12-31 Thread Bill Hart
Would this be mainly useful for computing transcendental functions? If so there is a package called mpfr (and a similar one for complex numbers called mpc) which are the caconical places for such functions. Of course I am not very imaginative, so maybe you have something else in mind which would

[mpir-devel] Re: Dumb question

2008-12-31 Thread Bill Hart
It shouldn't be too slow, but yes we'll definitely have source tarballs in a few days. Bill. On 31/12/2008, user923005 wrote: > > On Dec 30, 6:28 pm, "Jason Martin" > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At the moment there isn't a tarball for MPIR as it is not yet stable >> (although it is very close to being

[mpir-devel] Something else that may be helpful...

2008-12-31 Thread user923005
When doing work that requires high precision, it is often very important how fast an algorithm converges. I did an algorithm in Maple based upon the paper "On Infinitely Many Algorithms For Solving Equations" by Ernst Schroder, Translated by G. W. Stewart. Given any smoothly differentiable funct

[mpir-devel] Re: Dumb question

2008-12-31 Thread user923005
On Dec 30, 6:28 pm, "Jason Martin" wrote: > Hi, > > At the moment there isn't a tarball for MPIR as it is not yet stable > (although it is very close to being so). > > You should be able to do a read-only checkout of the SVN code using the URL > > http://modular.math.jmu.edu/svn/mpir > > with an