Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the

xint

package.

Summary description: Expandable operations on long numbers License type: lppl

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(1.08a: ) 1. improved efficiency of the basic conversion from exact fractions to floats, giving speed gains especially for the power function; 3.1415^3000000000 as a float is now within the package powers (sic), 2. the comparison routines handle much better inputs with big powers of ten, 3. the xintseries package has macros for floats, (1.08: ) 4. square root extraction, both for floats, and in a variant for integers. 5. new package xintbinhex.sty for expandable conversions of arbitrary length data to and from binary and hexadecimal.

Many improvements to the pdf documentation.

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf