Re: [bug-gawk] How does awk implement extremely long integers?

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

>> What is the relationship between gmp and mpfr libraries.

GMP provides the basic multiple-precision arithmetic.  MPFR builds
on that to provide correctly-rounded results.  MPC builds on both
to provide complex arithmetic.  See

        http://www.mpfr.org/

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