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Changes for version 0.51 - 2018-02-27

  • ADDED
    • rootreal(x,n[,digits]) nth root of x: x^(1/n)
    • addreal(x,y[,digits]) x+y
    • subreal(x,y[,digits]) x-y
    • mulreal(x,y[,digits]) x*y
    • divreal(x,y[,digits]) x/y
    • subfactorial(n) !n (derangements)
    • factorial_sum(n) !n (sum of factorials)
    • multifactorial(x,n) x!, x!!, x!!!, etc.
  • FIXES
    • Some memory leaks squashed.
    • Trizen reported a factor bug. Fixed with patch to tinyqs.c init code.
  • OTHER
    • Work around a bug in NetBSD.
    • Standalone ecpp creation fixed.
    • Allow Ramanujan polynomials (D = 11 mod 24) for ECPP, reducing sizes.
    • Some new code for ei().
    • is_primitive_root quite a bit faster.

Modules

Utilities related to prime numbers and factoring, using GMP