<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">The analog of a single gene pool in nature has come to pass for arbitrary precison math (APM) for OS X (native not Python).<DIV>GMP is 'it' for APM as far as I can tell unless I want to write my own.<DIV>And GMP doesn't compile on Mac-tel and won't for some time:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">The current release is 4.2, released 2006-03-26. It fixes all bugs found in 4.1.4, as well as several portability problems. It also adds several new features. Note that we chose not to work around all new GCC bugs in this release. </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"><B>Never forget to do a</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><B> make</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><B>check </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"><B>after building the library to make likely it was not miscompiled!</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Issues with GMP 4.2:</SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Miscompilation on several platforms using several different compilers. Remember to run </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">make</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">check</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">!</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">GMP does not build on MacInteltoch machines. Since Apple uses their own, creative assembly syntax, it is not trivial to fix this.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL></DIV></BODY></HTML>