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From: Jan Wielemaker <jan@swi.psy.uva.nl>
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Subject: Multiple precision arithmetic
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:56:57 +0200
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Hi,

Contributed by Robert van Engelen, you'll find and interface to the GNU
gmp library in the `packages' from the SWI-Prolog home directory.

With this library you can do arithmetic with arbitrary precision,
such as finding 1000!, etc.

	Regards --- Jan

