From: Nuxxie <nuxxie@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: Project Euclid Problem 26 SOLVED!!!
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:40:32 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

> 
> Maxima can calculate this series up to a billion or more,
> but it would take some time.  I need to check out Pari,
> which is a C program, and thus much faster:
> 
> https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/
> 

I just checked pari.  It is weird junk.  C code has to be
written in a bizarre manner with their own garbage collection
functions.  As a result, there is a somewhat steep learning curve.

Ialso looked at FLINT:

https://flintlib.org/

But FLINT does not have the functions I require.

I have settled on the Perl module Math::Prime::Util::GMP:

https://manpages.org/mathprimeutilgmp/3

This seems promising.  For one thing, the input/output
is much easier to control with Perl than with Maxima.

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