Rational numbers

[aleaxit at gmail.com]

On Feb 25, 3:09 pm, Fernando Perez <fperez.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> alea... at gmail.com wrote:
> > gmpy itself is or should be pretty trivial to build on any platform
> > (and I'll always happily accept any fixes that make it better on any
> > specific platform, since it's easy to make them conditional so they'll
> > apply to that platform only), but the underlying GMP is anything but:-
> > (.
>
> Alex, have you had a look at SAGE?
>
> http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/
>
> it uses GMP extensively, so they've had to patch it to work around these
> issues.  You can look at the SAGE release (they package everything as the
> original tarball + patches) for the GMP-specific stuff you need, though I
> suspect you'll still want to play with SAGE a little bit :).  It's a mighty
> impressive system.

Thanks Fernando, I will take a look at that.


Alex