Welcome!
In the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen we will organise a friendly competition/benchmark session for investigating the state of the art in the various implementations of exact real arithmetic.
All the interactive software packages capable of handling arbitrary precision arithmetic on elementary functions are invited to participate. Moreover all libraries for handling arbitrary precision arithmetic in any programming language are welcome to participate provided that the participant writes a suitable interface/program.
News
- 01-05-2006: More Digits Friendly Competition is being organised as part of RNC7.
- 21-10-2005: Final timings and rankings are available on the web. The final overall rankings are not different from the provisional rankings which were presented at the workshop, however the ranking for one problem has changed. The final overall winners are the mpfr team from LORIA.
- 10-10-2005: The overall winners, the mpfr team, have now made a document explaining their solutions for the competition. They already had a document explaining their solutions for the practice problems.
- 05-10-2005: Raw timings and provisional rankings are avilable on the web.
- 04-10-2005: Provisional rankings are presented at the workshop. The overall winners are the mpfr team from LORIA, consisting of Paul Zimmermann, Vincent Lefèvre, Patrick Pélissier, Laurent Fousse, Guillaume Hanrot and Jim White. In the "Basic Set" of problems the Wolfram Research Team were the best and in the "Intermediate Set" the mpfr team were ranked the highest.
- 03-10-2005: Competition started.
- 30-09-2005: Problems are announced.
- 29-09-2005: Schedule of the competition is now posted on the web and to the mailing list.
- 23-09-2005: Timing of the practice problems for 5 systems is now available on the web. You can download a table containing all timings here, or for each system separately here.
- 31-08-2005: There is now a mailing list for discussion about the competition.