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I will take the opportunity to promote Maxima, which is a very nice open source maths tool with a very long history (started in the 60's, and still being develo
by lokedhs 7y ago
I will take the opportunity to promote Maxima, which is a very nice open source maths tool with a very long history (started in the 60's, and still being developed). It leverages the bignum support in Common Lisp, and has no problems handling numbers like these.
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/ https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/
You can use Maxima's built-in command "factor" on this number as well, although I guess you'll have to be very patient.
I obviously also want to promote my own project, which is different UI on top of Maxima:
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.dhsdevelopments.Climaxima https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.dhsdevelopments.Climaxi...
- kazinator 7y agoBignums are there because of Macsyma (Maxima's ancestor)! "Bignums—arbitrary precision integer arithmetic—were added [to MacLisp] in 1970 or 1971 to meet the needs of Macsyma users." [https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf, P. 10 bottom]