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FNX (to be pronounced as "phoenix") is an attempt to revive my old library NX (2003-2011).

FNX is a library of multiprecision numbers (currently, only big integers) written for Free Pascal 3.0.0 or higher and Linux. The assembler code that can be enabled with a compiler directive, is for x86-64 processors only.

The current version is an alpha version. Many things can still be modified and there is no documentation yet but the code is commented and there are two Lazarus demo projects: fnx.Demo.BigInts and fnx.Demo.MultithreadApp.

A last thing, I do not know whether FNX can work with an other OS than Linux.

Here are examples of use from the project fnx.Demo.BigInts for Lazarus. For all these examples, the running times were obtained with an Intel i7-2600 processor (3.4 GHz).

• Big integers and strings
• GCD
• Strong BPSW-prime
• Modular cube roots
• RSA - Basics
• Extended GCD over a quadratic ring Z[w]
• Elliptic curve point halving over a GF(P) field

• Main change: FNX is now licensed according to the "3-Clause BSD" License.
• Suppressed unit
  • fnx.IntUtils.LowLevel
• Unit fnx.Demo.BigInts.Main.pas
  
  • Method Towers of Hanoi added.
• Unit fnx.BigInts.Stacks.pas
  
  • GetValues method added.

The FNX Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the 3-Clause BSD License (this license has also been called the "New BSD License" or "Modified BSD License"):

Copyright (C) 2020, Marcel Martin

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