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Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results
From: |
Jim Ursetto |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:10:21 -0500 |
On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:49 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Steve Graham scripsit:
>
>> Thanks, Mario. Worked like a charm. Why is that not part of the base
>> package?
>
> Licensing. The numbers egg has to be GPL, because it depends on the GMP
> (GNU Multi-precision Library) which is GPL.
numbers is BSD and hasn't depended on GMP since Peter rewrote it to use a
heavily modified version of Scheme48's bignum code.
numbers isn't in core mainly because Chicken tries to push functionality into
eggs when possible.
Jim
- [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, Steve Graham, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, Steve Graham, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, John Cowan, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, Kon Lovett, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, Peter Bex, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, Alex Queiroz, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results, Steve Graham, 2011/06/03
- Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results,
Jim Ursetto <=