CTAN update: xint

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Wed May 26 21:13:25 CEST 2021


Jean-François Burnol submitted an update to the

                xint

package.

Version number: 1.4g 2021-05-25
License type: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Expandable operations on long numbers

Announcement text:
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Breaking:
- iterated powers (** or ^) computed from right to left
- removal of deprecated single-character operators &, |, and =

Deprecated:
- old "typesetting" macros \xintFrac et al. have been renamed
  into \xintTeXFrac, etc... and former names will emit warnings

New:
- \xintTeXfromSci
- new mechanism for error messages raised by exceptions; when in
  interactive mode, dialog with user in only one step, not three

Bugfixes:
- \xinteval{_4} caused an infinite loop
- ... other bugfixes, see CHANGES.html for details


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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/generic/xint

More information is at
   https://www.ctan.org/pkg/xint

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun

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