Questions tagged [mpfr]
The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding.
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How to install GCC piece by piece with GMP, MPFR, MPC, ELF, without shared libraries?
How do I install GCC (the GNU Compiler Collection) piece by piece, using the current version,
using the correct versions of dependencies, not using a package manager (like yum, rpm, apt, dpkg), and ...
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Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 2.3.1+ and MPC 0.8.0+
I downloaded GCC 4.5 from http://www.netgull.com/gcc/releases/gcc-4.5.0/ but when I try to setup / build I am getting below error:
Linux:>~/shared_scripts/bin/gcc/gcc-4.5.0 1040> /x/home/...
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dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libmpfr.4.dylib
When I run "make" on a project I get this error:
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libmpfr.4.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/Petrov/Downloads/mips/bin/../libexec/gcc/mipsel-elf/4.8.1/cc1
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Cannot configure gcc - mpfr not found
I'm installing gcc 4.5.2 with mpc 0.8.2, mpfr 3.1.0, and gmp 5.0.2. I've copied each of the mpc, mpfr, and gmp directories into the gcc-4.5.2 directory (removing the version tags). GCC successfully ...
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Building GMP library with Visual Studio?
Is there an easy way to build the GMP (GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library, http://gmplib.org) under Windows, using Visual Studio 2005? I tried to find information about building the library ...
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How to install GNU MPFR library on pythonanywhere
I'm trying to install bigfloat and I am getting this message that seems to indicate I need the mpfr library first. How do I do this?
The message:
running build_ext building 'mpfr' extension ...
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GCC cant find GMP, MPFR and MPC libraries
I am trying to cross-compile GCC on Mac OS 10.5.7. I used this command to configure GCC after installing GMP, MPFR, and MPC:
../gcc-4.5.0/configure --target=$i586-elf --prefix=/usr/local/cross \
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cannot open libmpfr.so.4 after update on ubuntu 18.04
Today I updated my laptop to Ubuntu 18.04.
Now I try to run a program for my bachelor thesis, but it gives me the following error message:
error while loading shared libraries: libmpfr.so.4: ...
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different behaviour or sqrt when compiled with 64 or 32 bits
I'm using sqrt() function from math library, when I build for 64 bit using -m64 I'm getting correct result but when I build for 32 bit I have very inconsistent behaviour.
For example on 64bit
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Can I use a `mpfr_t` as both input and output argument?
The question is very simple and direct, but I could not find an answer on the documentation. If I have
mpfr_t a, b;
Can I do something like
mpfr_add(a, a, b, rnd);
This would compute the sum of a ...
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Compiling GMP/MPFR with Emscripten
Alright, this has been driving me insane. I've been trying this for at least a month, and no where on the internet is helping.
I followed the steps of this. Not even the example works when I do these ...
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How to check the version of GMP, MPFR and CamlIDL?
My question is simple... How could I check the version of GMP installed on my machine? What about MPFR? And What about CamlIDL?
Thank you very much
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Using Rmpfr to round with precision in R
I'm trying to use the Rmpfr library with the round() function to apply the round half to even rule and achieve correct results, without errors due the finite precision of float point values, as ...
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I need to calculate Stirling's approximation very fast
I'm writing a small library for statistical sampling which needs to run as fast as possible. In profiling I discovered that around 40% of the time taken in the function is spent computing Stirling's ...
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How to send GMP or MPFR types with MPI
I trying to send variables of type mpfr_t using MPI_Scatter. For example:
mpfr_t *v1 = new mpfr_t[10];
mpfr_t *v2 = new mpfr_t[10];
MPI_Scatter(v1, 5, MPI_BYTE, v2, 5, MPI_BYTE, 0, ...
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GMP & MPFR not found by cmake, but are installed
I'm trying to compile the plll library which require boost, GMP and MPFR on mac os X 10.11.
I've installed boost, GMP and MPFR by homebrew, then i've launched cmake in a dir build in plll, but I get ...
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Haskell FFI / C MPFR library wrapper woes
In order to create an arbitrary precision floating point / drop in replacement for Double, I'm trying to wrap MPFR using the FFI but despite all my efforts the simplest bit of code doesn't work. It ...
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Getting MPFR to build on cygwin
I spent the whole day setting up GCC as per
http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_install_GCC_4.3.0
On the gcc make step, it told me it needed a c++ compiler to continue for whatever reason,
So I ...
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Using big integers with gmp and machine limits
I wonder if it is possible to use integers bigger than the value of .Machine$double.xmax (~1.79e308) in R. I thought that by using e.g. Rmpfr or gmp libraries in R you could assign values of any size, ...
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There is a real reason for gcc to be so conservative with its dependecies ? ( MPFR, GMP, MPC )
I'm wondering if someone knows why gcc tends to be so conservative about the versions of the libraries to use to compile and build gcc itself .
The main reasons why I'm asking this are :
I think ...
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How to use complex numbers with boost::multiprecision::mpfr?
According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/17932632/1700939, it should be possible to use complex numbers with boost::multiprecision with gcc-4.7. This indeed works fine with boost::multiprecision::...
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Platform independent math library
Is there a publically available library that will produce the exact
same results for sin, cos, floor, ceil, exp and log on 32 bit and
64 bit linux, solaris and possibly other platforms?
I am ...
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GMPY2 doesn't install
EDIT: I'm using Win 10 and Ubuntu from the app store
I have tried to install gmpy2 by using:
apt-get install libgmp-dev
apt-get install libmpfr-dev
apt-get install libmpc-dev
and also downloaded ...
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How to install Rmpfr on Ubuntu 18.04?
After install.packages("Rmpfr") I'm getting this error
configure: error: Header file mpfr.h not found; maybe use
--with-mpfr-include=INCLUDE_PATH
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Rmpfr’
I ...
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python 'bigfloat' package installation issues
I'm trying to get the package 'bigfloat' installed on my Mac (OS X 10.8.4), and I'm running into some issues. The package 'bigfloat' requires two other dependencies: 1) mpfr, and 2) gmp.
I've ...
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Installation of package ‘Rmpfr’ had non-zero exit status in R
I am unable to install the Rmpfr package in R. I am trying to use the CVXR package in order to solve OR problems. Since Rmpfr package is needed as a pre-requisite, I tried installing the same using ...
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Collapse list of mpfr objects into single mpfr vector
I must be missing something obvious:
library(Rmpfr)
list.mpfr <- list(mpfr(10, 128), mpfr(20, 128)) # I'd like to turn this into mpfr(c(10, 20), 128)
test <- c(list.mpfr, recursive=TRUE) # ...
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How to install MPFR and GMP for C++ on visual studio
As I understand, I should first install GMP. The only tutorial I found for this purpose is http://cs.nyu.edu/exact/core/gmp/ and when I reach step 3: "Open gmp.dsw (gmp.vcproj for VC++.Net) to build ...
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I need to convert mpfr real number to gmp bit-integer number
I am writing a program, which operates on integers and floating-points. At first, i used GMP library for them, but GMP doesn't have functions such as sin, cos, exp and others at floating points. So, i ...
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MPFR: get sin of mpf_class
I installed gmp and mpfr on my environment. Now I can successfully
#include <gmpxx.h>
#include <mpfr.h>
#include <mpf2mpfr.h>
Now, say that I initialize an mpf_class with some ...
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Undefined symbols error related to "__mpf_struct" for OS X 10.10.2
I am trying to compile a program from
https://github.com/davidsd/sdpb
with gcc-4.9, boost 1.57.0, gmp-6.0.0a, and mpfr-3.1.2 on OS X 10.10.2, but I keep getting errors seemingly related to the gmp ...
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fast arbitrary precision c++ library: is __float128 faster than MPFR?
I know there are a couple of thread on similar topics ( What's the best (for speed) arbitrary-precision library for C++? and The best cross platform (portable) arbitrary precision math library ) ...
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Using MPFR (mpreal) with Eigen3
I've seen on the Eigen3 website that there is an "unsupported" module for MPFR multi-precision data type. Does anyone know how reliable this is?
My main goal is not only to use mpreal, but complex &...
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Converting mpfr_t (or any other arbitrary precision library type) to __float128
I guess I have two questions really.
1) I was wondering if anyone knows a way to convert mpfr_t types into __float128 types in GCC. I've looked around and found a thread on the mpfr bugfixes site ...
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gmp-mpfr-sys fails to build on macOS catalina 10.15.6
I am on macOS catalina 10.15.6. I am trying to use the rug crate in rust, particularly, the float library that uses MPFR. I am unable to compile the code due to a segmentation fault. The exact error ...
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How to use printf with mpfr and mpreal
What is the correct syntax for using printf and its cousins sprintf and fprintf to display the value of mpreal-type variables? I have tried the naive casting to double:
printf ("... %g ...", (double) ...
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How to set rounding mode in Boost Multiprecision when using MPFR
I am trying to figure out how I can format mpfr_float numbers using a rounding mode in Boost Multiprecision. In the below example, I expect 1.55 to round to either 1.5 or 1.6 depending on which ...
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Why is mpfr_printf different than printf for hex float (%a conversion specifier)?
I'm comparing values from regular floating point arithmetic and using a high-precision MPFR number as a baseline. When printing, I'm confused why the following code is output different.
The MPFR ...
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Correct way to restrict functions to specific data types
I am currently working with the following data types in c++:
double, boost::interval< double >, and
boost's mpfr/mpfi types (mpfr_float, mpfr_float_50, ..., mpfi_float, mpfi_float_50, ...)
I am ...
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mpfr_t function declaration error
I'm trying to create a function that returns type mpfr_t but I get an error in its declaration. The header file declaration looks like (mpfr.h is local):
#include "include/mpfr.h"
mpfr_t calcWinProb(...
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How to rebuild the mpfr.svn.build.vc10.zip in my own computer?
This question is about how to install "mpfr" with visual studio 2010 in windows OS.
Though I have actually solved the mpfr installation problem by using a pre-compiled mpfr library (see the details ...
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MPFR Rounding 0.9999 to 1?
I'm attempting to store the value 0.9999 into an mpfr_t variable using the mpfr_set_str() function
But 0.9999 is rounded to 1 (or some other value != 0.9999) during storage, no matter the round value ...
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MSYS2 MinGW64 to build GMP/MPFR on Windows as static library, and link them in MSVC project compiled with CL
I'm working using Visual Studio 2019. I have a project that requires GMP and MPFR ; as far as I know, there are no recent binaries available for Windows and one has to build his own.
To build GMP/...
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gmpy2 mpfr values are limited to 301,033 digits of which the 301,032 digits are correct
I am writing a Python3 (64-bit) program to calculate pi to at least a million digits using the gmpy2 module on 64-bit Windows 10. I'm using the Chudnovsky algorithm. The series arithmetic is genius, ...
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Scientific notation with Rmpfr in R
I am testing some calculation based on the example code from Rmpfr in R.
The test is as follows:
ns <- mpfr(1:24, 120) ; factorial(ns)
However, in my output the result is:
[1] ...
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Converting MPFR numbers to string and back
I'm trying to convert MPFR number to string and then back. The code I'm using is:
int base = 10;
int input = 25;
mpfr_t number;
mpfr_inits2(53, number, (mpfr_ptr) 0);
mpfr_set_d(number, input, ...
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Subnormal numbers in different precisions with MPFR
I would like to emulate various n-bit binary floating-point formats, each with a specified e_max and e_min, with p bits of precision. I would like these formats to emulate subnormal numbers, faithful ...
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R write mpfr data (Rmpfr) [closed]
I'm have a mpfrArray in R that I am trying to write to file but I get the error message:
Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE) :
cannot coerce class "structure("mpfr1", package = "...
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How to check if a number is a perfect square by using mpfr package in R?
I have a determinant which I know is a square of an integer, but because its value is bigger than .Machine$integer.max I used the mpfr package.
But I still have problems.
Here is the algorithm:
>...
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Does one still have to recompile GHC to use HMPFR?
On the page for the Haskell MPFR bindings HMPFR, they explain that in order to use the library one has to recompile ghc with modifications -- either with a different integer library or by renaming a ...
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