MPL: A multiprecision MATLAB-like environment

Abstract

A number of generic tools, some developed by the authors, some developed in cooperation with other teams and others available freely, are combined into an environment, called MPL from Multi Precision Lab, which offers a cross-platform variable precision alternative to MATLAB. Among the tools we mention for instance our C/C++ pre-compiler for type conversion, the GMP arithmetic library complemented with our own IEEE-854 compliant multi-radix multiprecision MpIeee library, the Boost matrix library, our own MATLAB parser, the libraries FFCall and GNU Libtool. The functionality of the well-known MATLAB toolboxes is available through the multiprecision equivalent of one's library of choice, generated using the same tools. We mention, among others, GSL, Numerical Recipes, an automatic differentiation toolkit [1], a hybrid polynomial solver [2] and so on. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.