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\"The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precisionarithmetic, signed integers operations, rational numbers and floatingpoint numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small and verylarge operands. GNU MP is fast for several reasons: It uses fullwordsas the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefullyoptimizes assembly code for many CPUs' most common inner loops and itgenerally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its operations.\"