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40        The following back-ends provide integer arithmetic:
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87                  <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cpp_int</span></code>
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92                  boost/multiprecision/cpp_int.hpp
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97                  2
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102                  None
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107                  Very versatile, Boost licensed, all C++ integer type which support
108                  both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision_arithmetic" target="_top">arbitrary
109                  precision</a> and fixed precision integer types.
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114                  Slower than <a href="http://gmplib.org" target="_top">GMP</a>, though
115                  typically not as slow as <a href="http://libtom.net" target="_top">libtommath</a>
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122                  <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">gmp_int</span></code>
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127                  boost/multiprecision/gmp.hpp
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132                  2
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137                  <a href="http://gmplib.org" target="_top">GMP</a>
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142                  Very fast and efficient back-end.
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147                  Dependency on GNU licensed <a href="http://gmplib.org" target="_top">GMP</a>
148                  library.
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155                  <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tom_int</span></code>
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160                  boost/multiprecision/tommath.hpp
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170                  <a href="http://libtom.net" target="_top">libtommath</a>
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175                  Public domain back-end with no licence restrictions.
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180                  Slower than <a href="http://gmplib.org" target="_top">GMP</a>.
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