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Calc - C-style arbitrary precision arithmetic system
Calc is an arbitrary precision arithmetic system
that uses a C-like language. It's useful as a calculator, an algorithm
prototype, and as a mathematical research tool. More importantly, calc
provides a machine-independent means of computation.
Its features include:
- Arbitrary precision integers and floating-point, fractions and
complex values
- Logarithm, numeric, trig, hyperbolic functions
- C-like syntax
- calc shell scripts, resource files, linkable program library
User defined finctions and function loading
- Over 283 built-in functions plus hooks for built-in custom extensions
- Arrays, lists, dynamic strings, matrices, associate arrays, objects
- Numeric, relational, boolean and variable access operators
- Extensive string and binary block memory builtin functions
- Matrix inversion, determinant, and other matrix operations
- Fast and cryptographic pseudo-random numbers, cryptographic hashes
- Factoring, primality tests, pi(x), multiplicative inverse, modular exp
- Bernoulli numbers, Euler numbers, Catalan numbers
- Uses REDC, splint-point and other high speed multi-precision algorithms
- Extensive regression test suite
- Resource functions: large prime tests, factoring, quaternions, etc.
- File I/O, multi-precision printf and scanf, stdio-like functions
- GNU readline, user & system startup scripts, emacs-style line editing
- Online help
Obtaining
| | Version 2.11.9.3 (stable) released on 2004-03-23 | | | Licensed under LGPL. | | This is a GNU package. |
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DocumentationUser manpages included
Support contacts
Project contacts
| Maintainers | |
| Developers | |
| Contributors | - Ernest W. Bowen
- Peter Miller
- Neil Justusson
- Dr. D.J.Picton
- Martin Buck
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Related information
| Interfaces | terminal, command line, library |
| Programs | 4dsphere, fproduct, mersenne, piforever, plus, powerterm, simple, square |
| Source languages | calc language |
| Weak prerequisites | readline, gcc |
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