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# mpfr
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The [MPFR library](https://www.mpfr.org/) is a C library for
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multiple-precision floating-point computations with _correct rounding_. MPFR
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has continuously been supported by [INRIA](https://www.inria.fr/) and the
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current main authors come from the [Caramba](https://caramba.loria.fr/) and
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[AriC](http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/AriC/) project teams at
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[Loria](https://www.loria.fr/) (Nancy, France) and
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[LIP](http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/) (Lyon, France) respectively; see more on
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the [credit page](https://www.mpfr.org/credit.html). MPFR is based on the
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[GMP](https://gmplib.org/) multiple-precision library.
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The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision
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floating-point computation which is both efficient and has a well-defined
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semantics. It copies the good ideas from the ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for
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double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit significand).
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