On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:26:36PM -0600, C de-Avillez wrote:
If `factor' is built without using GNU MP, only single-precision arithmetic is available, and so large numbers (typically 2^64 and above) will not be supported.
Pulling in a bignum library into the required list in order to support the factor(1) command seems a little obnoxious. If someone wants to design a coreutils-factor-bignum package that diverts factor or somesuch I guess I'd consider it, but is there really that much demand for this feature? (That is, would anyone really use it for anything other than novelty value?)
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