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| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>sci-mathematics@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo Mathematics Project</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| MPFI is intended to be a portable library written in C for arbitrary |
| precision interval arithmetic with intervals represented using MPFR |
| reliable floating-point numbers. It is based on the GNU MP library |
| and on the MPFR library. The purpose of an arbitrary precision |
| interval arithmetic is on the one hand to get guaranteed results, |
| thanks to interval computation, and on the other hand to obtain |
| accurate results, thanks to multiple precision arithmetic. The MPFI |
| library is built upon MPFR in order to benefit from the correct |
| roundings provided by MPFR. Further advantages of using MPFR are its |
| portability and compliance with the IEEE 754 standard for |
| floating-point arithmetic. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |
