Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the

bnumexpr

package.

Version number: 1.6 2025-09-05 License type: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Extends eTeX’s \numexpr...\relax construct to big integers

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\bnumeval extends LaTeX's \inteval with support for arbitrarily big integers, // for floored division, /: for the associated remainder, ^ and ** for powers, ! for factorials. A user interface allows to add new operators to the syntax, or to modify the behavior of existing ones. The package can also be used under Plain (pdf|xe|lua)TeX, with help of miniltx.

The 1.6 release adds:

- 0b, 0o (and '), 0x are recognized as prefixes for binary, octal, and hexadecimal (formerly, only " for hexadecimal was provided).

- \bnumeval accepts an optional argument [b], [o] or [h], which tells to convert the output to binary, octal, or hexadecimal.

- characters (such as ! and : with French) which are Babel-active with the pdftex engine are out-of-the-box compatible.

There are some breaking changes (mainly, the replacement of \evaltohex by \bnumeval[h]), check the PDF documentation.

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For the CTAN Team Erik Braun

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