CTAN update: xint

[CTAN Announcements]

Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the

                 xint

package.

Version number: 1.2i 2016-12-13
License type: lppl1.3

Summary description: Expandable operations on long numbers

Announcement text:
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This release principally brings speed improvements to under the hood
auxiliary (mainly non arithmetic) routines. As a result \xintTrunc,
\xintRound, \xintXTrunc got faster. Also \xintKeep, \xintTrim, and
\xintLength were somewhat refactored and are faster.

New macros \xintLastItem and \romannumeral\xintgobble (for cleaning
up hundreds of thousands of unwanted tokens, if needed) and also
\romannumeral\xintreplicate which is simply borrowed from expl3 with
some minor changes. Some aspects of \xintFor are better explained in
the docs.

The documentation has dropped all usage of LaTeX "command", which
was for some unknown reason to be found at a number of locations of
the user manual, in favor of "macro", which is more apt for a
package (which works under any TeX -- as long as its primitives are
not obfuscated of course!) almost all of whose macros work by
expansion only (and \numexpr).

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The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xint

The package's files themselves can be inspected at
    http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/xint

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    Thanks for the upload.

      For the CTAN Team
     Erik Braun

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