See, I'm under the impression that bignum uses Math::BigInt, which uses Math::BigInt::GMP if available. Since I have Math::BigInt::GMP installed, I'd assume (by default) it'd use that. But otherwise, I see what you mean.

It seems reasonable to me to have bigint require GMP. I wonder if there are cases where you'd really want to do bignum processing in pure Perl.

UPDATE: this is false. bignum explicitly asks for ::Calc. Why would it do that?

-Paul

In reply to Re^3: bignum rocks 2^43_112_609-1 by jettero
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