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        The following back-ends provide integer arithmetic:
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                  <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cpp_int</span></code>
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                  boost/multiprecision/cpp_int.hpp
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                  Very versatile, Boost licensed, all C++ integer type which support
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                  Slower than <a href="http://gmplib.org" target="_top">GMP</a>, though
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                  <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">gmp_int</span></code>
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                  boost/multiprecision/gmp.hpp
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                  <a href="http://gmplib.org" target="_top">GMP</a>
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                  Very fast and efficient back-end.
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                  Dependency on GNU licensed <a href="http://gmplib.org" target="_top">GMP</a>
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                  <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tom_int</span></code>
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                  boost/multiprecision/tommath.hpp
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                  <a href="http://libtom.org/?page=features&amp;newsitems=5&amp;whatfile=ltm" target="_top">libtommath</a>
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                  Public domain back-end with no licence restrictions.
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                  Slower than <a href="http://gmplib.org" target="_top">GMP</a>.
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