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diff --git a/source/l/mpfr/slack-desc b/source/l/mpfr/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 000000000..23b433145 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/l/mpfr/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line +# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' +# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must +# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':'. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +mpfr: mpfr (Multiple-Precision Floating-Point Reliable Library) +mpfr: +mpfr: The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point +mpfr: computations with exact rounding (also called correct rounding). +mpfr: It is based on the GMP multiple-precision library. +mpfr: The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision +mpfr: floating-point computation which is both efficient and has +mpfr: well-defined semantics. It copies the good ideas from the +mpfr: ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for double-precision floating-point arithmetic +mpfr: (53-bit mantissa). +mpfr: |