Re: 2 maple important bugs, ifactor(10000!);pi(500000000);

From: Thomas Richard (t.richard_at_scientific.de)
Date: 01/28/05


Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:08:18 GMT

Bernard Parisse <parisse@domain.invalid.fr> wrote:

> Richard Fateman wrote: [...]
> > In fact, maybe Maple should call NTL in a similar
> > model to Matlab calling Maple.
>
> This is not possible since NTL is GPL-ed (unless the
> license is changed or unless Maple
> becomes licensed under the GPL which I seriously doubt!).
> That's one advantage of GPL-ed CAS, they can link
> to these kind of excellent libraries (like for example
> Giac/Xcas with PARI and NTL).

>From version 9 on, Maple uses GMP (which is LGPL-ed) for many operations
on large integers.

-- 
Thomas Richard
Maple Support
Scientific Computers GmbH
http://www.scientific.de


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