Lua-only library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic
Currently this repository is in alpha status!
This repository provides the module mpz – written only in Lua - for computing with integers "larger than normal". It was created to be used for simple computer graphics, but also can be used for other tasks. It was created for applications, which forbid or disadvise linking to binary modules1.
The version 1.0 depends on Lua version 5.3 . But it should also work with later Lua versions.
Because the module is written in Lua and only uses the most efficient basecase algorithms it is neither very fast nor very efficient. Thus this module is recommended for:
- simple computer graphics, geometry
- simple computer vision
- education
- prototypes, proofs of concepts
- any runtime, which forbids or disadvises binary Lua modules
Thus this module is not recommended for:
- fast computer graphics
- fast computer vision
- cryptography
- number theory
- astronomy
Footnotes
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especially for LuaTeX with the disadvised
--shell-escapeoption. ↩