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PARI/GP

Description

PARI/GP is a widely used computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory (factorizations, algebraic number theory, elliptic curves...). It also contains a large number of functions for computing with matrices, polynomials, power series, algebraic numbers etc., and a lot of transcendental functions.

  • PARI is a C library, allowing fast computations
  • gp is an easy-to-use interactive shell giving access to the PARI functions
  • GP is the name of gp's scripting language
  • Math::Pari provides a perl interface to PARI

Version

Type gp --version at the prompt.

How to Use

At the prompt, type gp.

Documentation