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diff --git a/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm b/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm index 16383d1ec1..6692d26b59 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm @@ -46,25 +46,11 @@ "--enable-cxx"))) (synopsis "Multiple-precision arithmetic library") (description - "GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on -signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no -practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available -memory in the machine GMP runs on. GMP has a rich set of functions, and the -functions have a regular interface. - -The main target applications for GMP are cryptography applications and -research, Internet security applications, algebra systems, computational -algebra research, etc. - -GMP is carefully designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands -and for huge operands. The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic -arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, with highly optimised assembly -code for the most common inner loops for a lot of CPUs, and by a general -emphasis on speed. - -GMP is faster than any other bignum library. The advantage for GMP increases -with the operand sizes for many operations, since GMP uses asymptotically -faster algorithms.") + "GMP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on +signed integers, rational numbers and floating point numbers. The precision +is only limited by the available memory. The library is highly optimized, +with a design focus on execution speed. It is aimed at use in, for example, +cryptography and computational algebra.") (license lgpl3+) (home-page "http://gmplib.org/"))) @@ -83,14 +69,8 @@ faster algorithms.") (propagated-inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp))) ; <mpfr.h> refers to <gmp.h> (synopsis "C library for arbitrary precision floating-point arithmetic") (description - "The GNU MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision -floating-point computations with correct rounding. MPFR is based on the GMP -multiple-precision library. - -The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision -floating-point computation which is both efficient and has a well-defined -semantics. It copies the good ideas from the ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for -double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa).") + "MPFR is a C library for performing multiple-precision, floating-point +computations with correct rounding.") (license lgpl3+) (home-page "http://www.mpfr.org/"))) @@ -110,12 +90,7 @@ double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa).") ("mpfr" ,mpfr))) (synopsis "C library for arbitrary precision complex arithmetic") (description - "GNU MPC is a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with -arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result. It extends -the principles of the IEEE-754 standard for fixed precision real floating -point numbers to complex numbers, providing well-defined semantics for -every operation. At the same time, speed of operation at high precision -is a major design goal. The library is built upon and follows the same -principles as GNU MPFR.") + "GNU MPC is a C library for performing arithmetic on complex numbers. +It supports arbitrarily high precision and it correctly rounds the results.") (license lgpl3+) (home-page "http://mpc.multiprecision.org/"))) |