Re: Math::Pari 'factor' is wrong

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was NOT [per weedlist] sent to
Ilya Zakharevich
<nospam-abuse@xxxxxxxxx>], who wrote in article <dvge29$ch7$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
But anyway, I discovered a bug in unsigned --> PARI conversion.
Sigh...

perl -MMath::Pari -wle "print PARI 3936116531"
-358850765

[Note that this bug is not related to the problems the poster had
due to misunderstanding of Perl arithmetic; but it may move the
threshold where problems appear.]

I released 2.010704 which has this bug fixed. (The test suite is
sensitive to details of propagation from INT to FLOAT in Perl, so may
be wrong on 64-bit platforms. Also, if somebody runs a platform where
$Config{longsize} < $Config{ivsize}, I would like to hear from you
even if test suite succeeds. ;-)

Thanks,
Ilya
.

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