Re: [Chicken-users] Different factorial results

[Kon Lovett]

On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:49 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> Steve Graham scripsit:
>
> > Thanks, Mario.  Worked like a charm.  Why is that not part of the  
> > base
> > package?
>
> Licensing.  The numbers egg has to be GPL, because it depends on the  
> GMP
> (GNU Multi-precision Library) which is GPL.  The overall license for
> Chicken, however, is BSD.  There are alternatives to the GMP, but it  
> is
> the gold standard: fast, accurate, space-conserving.

Current numbers egg is w/o GMP.

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