Section: New Software and Platforms

GNU MPFR

Participant : Paul Zimmermann [contact] .

GNU MPFR is one of the main pieces of software developed by the Caramel team. Since end 2006, it has become a joint project between Caramel and the Arénaire project-team (now AriC , Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes). GNU MPFR is a library for computing with arbitrary precision floating-point numbers, together with well-defined semantics, and is distributed under the LGPL license. All arithmetic operations are performed according to a rounding mode provided by the user, and all results are guaranteed correct to the last bit, according to the given rounding mode.

No new release was made in 2014. However a developers meeting was organized in January 20 to 22 in Nancy, together with the developers of GNU MPC .