https://flintlib.org/>, a C library for number theory. 'FLINT' extends GNU 'MPFR' <https://www.mpfr.org/> and GNU 'MP' <https://gmplib.org/> with support for operations on standard rings (the integers, the integers modulo n, finite fields, the rational, p-adic, real, and complex numbers) as well as matrices and polynomials over rings. 'FLINT' implements midpoint-radius interval arithmetic, also known as ball arithmetic, in the real and complex numbers, enabling computation in arbitrary precision with rigorous propagation of rounding and other errors; see Johansson (2017) <doi:10.1109/TC.2017.2690633>. Finally, 'FLINT' provides ball arithmetic implementations of many special mathematical functions, with high coverage of reference works such as the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions <https://dlmf.nist.gov/>. The R interface defines S4 classes, generic functions, and methods for representation and basic operations as well as plain R functions mirroring and vectorizing entry points in the C library.">

flint: Fast Library for Number Theory (original) (raw)

An R interface to 'FLINT' <https://flintlib.org/>, a C library for number theory. 'FLINT' extends GNU 'MPFR' <https://www.mpfr.org/> and GNU 'MP' <https://gmplib.org/> with support for operations on standard rings (the integers, the integers modulo n, finite fields, the rational, p-adic, real, and complex numbers) as well as matrices and polynomials over rings. 'FLINT' implements midpoint-radius interval arithmetic, also known as ball arithmetic, in the real and complex numbers, enabling computation in arbitrary precision with rigorous propagation of rounding and other errors; see Johansson (2017) <doi:10.1109/TC.2017.2690633>. Finally, 'FLINT' provides ball arithmetic implementations of many special mathematical functions, with high coverage of reference works such as the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions <https://dlmf.nist.gov/>. The R interface defines S4 classes, generic functions, and methods for representation and basic operations as well as plain R functions mirroring and vectorizing entry points in the C library.

Version: 0.1.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.3), methods
Imports: stats
Enhances: Rmpfr, gmp
Published: 2025-10-10
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.flint
Author: Mikael Jagan ORCID iD [aut, cre], Martin Maechler ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Mikael Jagan
BugReports: https://github.com/jaganmn/flint/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://github.com/jaganmn/flint
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: flint (>= 3), mpfr (>= 3.1), gmp
Materials: NEWS
In views: NumericalMathematics
CRAN checks: flint results

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