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Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results


From: Jim Ursetto
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:10:21 -0500

On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:49 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> Steve Graham scripsit:
> 
>> Thanks, Mario.  Worked like a charm.  Why is that not part of the base
>> package?
> 
> Licensing.  The numbers egg has to be GPL, because it depends on the GMP
> (GNU Multi-precision Library) which is GPL.

numbers is BSD and hasn't depended on GMP since Peter rewrote it to use a 
heavily modified version of Scheme48's bignum code.

numbers isn't in core mainly because Chicken tries to push functionality into 
eggs when possible.

Jim


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