Fast Library for Number Theory

Last updated
FLINT
Original author(s) William Hart, David Harvey, and others
Developer(s) Fredrik Johansson, Albin Ahlbäck (maintainers), and others
Stable release
3.1.3 / 26 April 2024;9 months ago (2024-04-26)
Repository
Written in C
Operating system POSIX systems
Type Mathematical software
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website flintlib.org

The Fast Library for Number Theory (FLINT) is a C library for number theory applications. The two major areas of functionality currently implemented in FLINT are polynomial arithmetic over the integers and a quadratic sieve. The library is designed to be compiled with the GNU Multi-Precision Library (GMP) and is released under the GNU General Public License. It is developed by William Hart of the University of Kaiserslautern (formerly University of Warwick) and David Harvey of University of New South Wales (formerly Harvard University) to address the speed limitations of the PARI and NTL libraries. [1]

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Design Philosophy

Functionality

References

  1. Page 10 of the Project Description for UW 2006 COMPMATH Proposal by William Stein

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