Looking around some more on the web, I found that the GNU MP (GMP) lib has switched from being GPLed to LGPLed, meaning that it can actually be used by non-GPLed code as long as the source code for the GMP remains publically accessible. Some background which probably motivated this move can be found here: http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/UNIX/current/0264.0.html http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~scheme/source/stk/Mp/fgmp-1.0b5/notes Since the GMP offers arbitrary precision numbers and also has a rational number implementation I wonder if we could use it in Python to support fractions and arbitrary precision floating points ?! Here's pointer to what the GNU MP has to offer: http://www.math.columbia.edu/online/gmp.html The existing mpz module only supports MP integers, but support for the other two types should only be a matter of hard work ;-). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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