[fpc-devel] Arbitrary-precision arithmetic unit

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Alexander Klenin wrote:

> Is there such a thing for FPC?
> I need it for my project and I have found is this:
> 
>   http://pauillac.inria.fr/~quercia/cdrom/bibs/numerix.tar.gz
> 
> Which seems unmaintained, in french, has horrible API,
> and is actually a wrapper around C library.
> 
> Seeing as FPC contains at least three expression-parsing-and-evaluation
> libraries, I think one "long arithmetic" unit would not hurt.
> 
> So, should I write one or did I just not searched in the right place?

There is one in the contributed units:
mpcalc from Franco Milano. It has been around for quite some time.

Michael.