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

From: Richard J. Fateman (fateman_at_eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 01/29/05

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    Bernard Parisse wrote:
    > Richard Fateman wrote:
    >
    >> There are other systems than Maple that
    >> concentrate on number theoretic computations and compete
    >> to do large number stuff fast. NTL comes to mind.
    >> 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).

      It seems to me that would make it impossible to run a proprietary
    program under linux unless perhaps the program did no
    input or output. I assume this is not a great newsgroup
    for this discussion, but your email address didn't work.
    RJF

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