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<div id="header">
<h1 class="title">CHANGE LOG</h1>
-<h2 class="author">xint 1.3a</h2>
-<h3 class="date">2018/03/07</h3>
+<h2 class="author">xint 1.3b</h2>
+<h3 class="date">2018/05/18</h3>
</div>
<div id="TOC">
<ul>
+<li><a href="#b-20180518"><code>1.3b (2018/05/18)</code></a><ul>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+</ul></li>
<li><a href="#a-20180307"><code>1.3a (2018/03/07)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#removed">Removed</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes">Bug fixes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-1">Improvements and new features</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section"><code>1.3 (2018/03/01)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-1">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-1">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-2">Improvements and new features</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#q-20180206"><code>1.2q (2018/02/06)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-2">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-3">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-1">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#p-20171205"><code>1.2p (2017/12/05)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-2">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-3">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-1">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-4">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-2">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#o-20170829"><code>1.2o (2017/08/29)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-3">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-2">Incompatible changes</a></li>
<li><a href="#deprecated">Deprecated</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#n-20170806"><code>1.2n (2017/08/06)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-4">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-4">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-3">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-5">Improvements and new features</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#m-20170731"><code>1.2m (2017/07/31)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-5">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-5">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-4">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-6">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-3">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#l-20170726"><code>1.2l (2017/07/26)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#removed">Removed</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-6">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#removed-1">Removed</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-7">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-4">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#k-20170106"><code>1.2k (2017/01/06)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-6">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-7">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-5">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-8">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-5">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#j-20161222"><code>1.2j (2016/12/22)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-8">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-9">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-6">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#i-20161213"><code>1.2i (2016/12/13)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-7">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#removed-1">Removed</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-9">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-6">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#removed-2">Removed</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-10">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-7">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#h-20161120"><code>1.2h (2016/11/20)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-10">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-11">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-8">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#g-20160319"><code>1.2g (2016/03/19)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-8">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-11">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-7">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-12">Improvements and new features</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#f-20160312"><code>1.2f (2016/03/12)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-9">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-12">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-8">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-13">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-9">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#e-20151122"><code>1.2e (2015/11/22)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-13">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-14">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-10">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#d-20151118"><code>1.2d (2015/11/18)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-14">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-15">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-11">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#c-20151116"><code>1.2c (2015/11/16)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-15">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-16">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-12">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#b-20151029"><code>1.2b (2015/10/29)</code></a><ul>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-13">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#a-20151019"><code>1.2a (2015/10/19)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-16">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-17">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-14">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#section-1"><code>1.2 (2015/10/10)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#removed-2">Removed</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-17">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#removed-3">Removed</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-18">Improvements and new features</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#c-20150912"><code>1.1c (2015/09/12)</code></a></li>
<li><a href="#b-20150831"><code>1.1b (2015/08/31)</code></a></li>
<li><a href="#a-20141107"><code>1.1a (2014/11/07)</code></a></li>
<li><a href="#section-2"><code>1.1 (2014/10/28)</code></a><ul>
-<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-10">Incompatible changes</a></li>
-<li><a href="#removed-3">Removed</a></li>
+<li><a href="#incompatible-changes-9">Incompatible changes</a></li>
+<li><a href="#removed-4">Removed</a></li>
<li><a href="#deprecated-1">Deprecated</a></li>
-<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-18">Improvements and new features</a></li>
+<li><a href="#improvements-and-new-features-19">Improvements and new features</a></li>
<li><a href="#bug-fixes-15">Bug fixes</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#n-20140401"><code>1.09n (2014/04/01)</code></a></li>
@@ -145,12 +148,23 @@
<li><a href="#section-9"><code>1.0 (2013/03/28)</code></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
-<pre><code>Source: xint.dtx 1.3a 2018/03/07 (doc 2018/03/07)
+<pre><code>Source: xint.dtx 1.3b 2018/05/18 (doc 2018/05/18)
Author: Jean-Francois Burnol
Info: Expandable operations on big integers, decimals, fractions
License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
+<h2 id="b-20180518"><code>1.3b (2018/05/18)</code></h2>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<p>All additions related to randomness are marked as work-in-progress. They require an engine providing the <code>\(pdf)uniformdeviate</code> primitive.</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p><strong>xintkernel</strong>: <code>\xintUniformDeviate</code>.</p></li>
+<li><p><strong>xint</strong>: <code>\xintRandomDigits</code>, <code>\xintXRandomDigits</code>, <code>\xintiiRandRange</code>, <code>\xintiiRandRangeAtoB</code>.</p></li>
+<li><p><strong>xintfrac</strong>: support macros (not public, mainly because internal format for floats is surely not final) for <code>random()</code> and <code>qrand()</code>.</p></li>
+<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: <code>random()</code>, <code>qrand()</code>, and <code>randrange(A[, B])</code>.</p></li>
+<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: when a function <code>foo()</code> is declared via <code>\xintdeffunc</code> (et al.) to be parameter-less, it can be used as <code>foo()</code>; formerly <code>foo(nil)</code> syntax was required.</p></li>
+<li><p>The usual provision of user manual &quot;improvements&quot;.</p></li>
+</ul>
<h2 id="a-20180307"><code>1.3a (2018/03/07)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="removed">Removed</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>xintcore</strong>, <strong>xint</strong>, <strong>xintfrac</strong>: removal of the internal macros which were used at <code>1.2o</code> to add a deprecation mechanism; all deprecated macros have been removed at <code>1.3</code> so there was no reason to keep the code used for deprecating them.</li>
</ul>
@@ -158,28 +172,28 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><strong>xintexpr</strong>: the mechanism for adjunction to the expression parsers of user defined functions was refactored and improved at previous release <code>1.3</code>: in particular recursive definitions became possible. But an oversight made these recursive functions quite inefficient (to remain polite.) This release fixes the problem.</li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-1">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: new conditionals <code>ifone()</code> and <code>ifint()</code>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintfrac</strong>: <code>\xintREZ</code> is faster on inputs having one hundred digits or more.</p></li>
<li><p>Added to the user manual mention of macros such as <code>\xintDivFloor</code>, <code>\xintMod</code>, <code>\xintModTrunc</code>, which had been left out so far.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="section"><code>1.3 (2018/03/01)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-1">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xintcore</strong>, <strong>xint</strong>, <strong>xintfrac</strong>: all macros deprecated at <code>1.2o</code> got removed.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintfrac</strong>: addition and subtraction of <code>a/b</code> and <code>c/d</code> now use the l.c.m. of the denominators. Similarly the macro supporting the modulo operator <code>/:</code> uses a l.c.m. for the denominator of the result.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: the addition, subtraction, modulo <code>/:</code>, and the <code>mod()</code> and <code>divmod()</code> functions produce generally smaller denominators (see previous item).</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: formerly, the internal macros which are internally associated to user-declared functions were using comma separated parameter texts. They now do not use such commas (their meanings, which may again change in future, are written for information to the log under <code>\xintverbosetrue</code>).</p></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-1">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-2">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: user-defined functions may now be of a recursive nature. This was made possible by a refactoring of the <code>\xintNewExpr</code> mechanism. It became both leaner and more extensive than formerly.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintfrac</strong>: new macros <code>\xintPIrr</code> and <code>\xintDecToString</code>. The latter is a backport of a <code>polexpr 0.4</code> utility, and it is to be considered unstable.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: new function <code>preduce()</code> associated with <code>\xintPIrr</code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="q-20180206"><code>1.2q (2018/02/06)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-2">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-3">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>xintexpr</strong>: tacit multiplication extended to cases such as <code>3!4!5!</code> or <code>(1+2)3</code>.</li>
</ul>
@@ -188,7 +202,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><strong>xintcore</strong>: sadly, refactoring at <code>1.2l</code> of subtraction left an extra character in an inner macro causing breakage in some rare circumstances. This should not have escaped our test suite!</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="p-20171205"><code>1.2p (2017/12/05)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-2">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes-1">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xintgcd</strong>: <code>\xintBezout{a}{b}</code>'s output consists of <code>{u}{v}{d}</code> with <code>u*a+v*b==d</code>, with <code>d</code> the GCD. Formerly it was <code>{a}{b}{u}{v}{d}</code>, and with <code>u*a-v*b==d</code>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintgcd</strong>: <code>\xintBezout{0}{0}</code> expands to <code>{0}{0}{0}</code>. Formerly (since <code>1.2l</code>) it raised <code>InvalidOperation</code>.</p></li>
@@ -196,7 +210,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p><strong>xintfrac</strong>: <code>\xintMod</code> is now associated with floored division. The former meaning is available as <code>\xintModTrunc</code>.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: the <code>//</code> operator and its associated modulo <code>'mod'</code> (or <code>/:</code>) now correspond to floored division, like the Python language <code>//</code>, <code>%</code>, and <code>divmod(x, y)</code>. Formerly they had been associated to truncated division. This is breaking change for operands of opposite signs.</p></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-3">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-4">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xinttools</strong>: <code>\xintListWithSep</code>, which had remained unchanged since its introduction at <code>1.04 (2013/04/25)</code>, was rewritten for increased speed.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintexpr</strong>: <code>\xintdefvar</code>'s syntax is extended to allow simultaneous assignments. Examples: <code>\xintdefvar x1, x2, x3 := 1, 3**10, 3**20;</code> or <code>\xintdefiivar A, B := B, A 'mod' B;</code> for already defined variables <code>A</code> and <code>B</code>.</p></li>
@@ -210,7 +224,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p>various documentation fixes; in particular, the partial dependency of <strong>xintcfrac</strong> on <strong>xinttools</strong> had not been mentioned.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="o-20170829"><code>1.2o (2017/08/29)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-3">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes-2">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>xint</strong>: <code>\xintAND</code>, <code>\xintOR</code>, ... and similar Boolean logic macros do not apply anymore <code>\xintNum</code> (or <code>\xintRaw</code> if <strong>xintfrac</strong> is loaded), to their arguments (often, from internal usage of <code>\xintSgn</code>), but only f-expand them (using e.g. <code>\xintiiSgn</code>). This is kept un-modified even if loading <strong>xintfrac</strong>.</li>
</ul>
@@ -226,22 +240,22 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p><strong>xint</strong>: <code>\xintNot</code> was renamed to <code>\xintNOT</code>, former denomination is deprecated. See also item about Boolean logic macros in the <em>Incompatible Changes</em> section.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="n-20170806"><code>1.2n (2017/08/06)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-4">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes-3">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>xintbinhex</strong> does not load package <strong>xintcore</strong> anymore, but only <strong>xintkernel</strong>.</li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-4">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-5">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xintbinhex</strong> has only <strong>xintkernel</strong> as dependency.</p></li>
<li><p>Macros of <strong>xintbinhex</strong> have been improved for speed and increased maximal sizes of allowable inputs.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="m-20170731"><code>1.2m (2017/07/31)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-5">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes-4">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xintbinhex</strong>: the length of the input is now limited. The maximum size depends on the macro and ranges from about <code>4000</code> to about <code>19900</code> digits.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintbinhex</strong>: <code>\xintCHexToBin</code> is now the variant of <code>\xintHexToBin</code> which does not remove leading binary zeroes: <code>N</code> hex-digits give on output exactly <code>4N</code> binary digits.</p></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-5">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-6">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>xintbinhex</strong>: all macros have been rewritten using techniques from the 1.2 release (they had remained unmodified since <code>1.08</code> of <code>2013/06/07</code>.) The new macros are faster but limited to a few thousand digits. The <code>1.08</code> routines could handle tens of thousands of digits, but not in a reasonable time.</li>
</ul>
@@ -252,12 +266,12 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p><strong>xint</strong>, <strong>xintfrac</strong>: <code>\xintGeq</code>, <code>\xintMax</code>, <code>\xintMin</code>, suffered from some extra overhead. This was caused by use of some auxiliaries from the very early days which got redefined at some stage. This is fixed here with some additional efficiency improvements and pruning of old code.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="l-20170726"><code>1.2l (2017/07/26)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="removed">Removed</h3>
+<h3 id="removed-1">Removed</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><code>\xintiiSumExpr</code>, <code>\xintiiPrdExpr</code> (<strong>xint</strong>) and <code>\xintSumExpr</code>, <code>\xintPrdExpr</code> (<strong>xintfrac</strong>). They had not been formally deprecated, but had been left un-documented since <code>1.09d (2013/10/22)</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>internal macro <code>\xint_gob_til_xint_relax</code> removed.</p></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-6">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-7">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>the underscore character <code>_</code> is accepted by the <strong>xintexpr</strong> parsers as a digit separator (the space character already could be used for improved readability of big numbers). It is not allowed as <em>first</em> character of a number, as it would then be mis-interpreted as the start of a possible variable name.</p></li>
<li><p>some refactoring in <strong>xintcore</strong> auxiliary routines and in <code>\xintiiSub</code> and <code>\xintiiCmp</code> for some small efficiency gains.</p></li>
@@ -273,12 +287,12 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p><strong>xintfrac</strong>: the manual said one could use directly <code>\numexpr</code> compatible expressions in arithmetic macros (without even a <code>\numexpr</code> encapsulation) if they were expressed with up to 8 tokens. There was a bug if these 8 tokens evaluated to zero. The bug has been fixed, and up to 9 tokens are now accepted. But it is simpler to use <code>\the\numexpr</code> prefix and not to worry about the token count... The ending <code>\relax</code> is now un-needed.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="k-20170106"><code>1.2k (2017/01/06)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-6">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes-5">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>macro <code>\xintFloat</code> which rounds its input to a floating point number does <em>not</em> print anymore <code>10.0...0eN</code> to signal an upwards rounding to the next power of ten. The mantissa has in all cases except the zero input exactly one digit before the decimal mark.</p></li>
<li><p>some floating point computations may differ in the least significant digits, due to a change in the rounding algorithm applied to macro arguments expressed as fractions and to an improvement in precision regarding half-integer powers in expressions. See next.</p></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-7">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-8">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>the initial rounding to the target precision <code>P</code> which is applied by the floating point macros from <strong>xintfrac</strong> to their arguments achieves the <em>exact (aka correct) rounding</em> even for inputs which are fractions with more than <code>P+2</code> digits in their numerators and denominators (<code>&gt;1</code>.) Hence the computed values depend only on the arguments as rational numbers and not upon their representatives. This is not relevant to <em>expressions</em> (<strong>xintexpr</strong>), because the <code>\xintfloatexpr</code> parser sees there <code>/</code> as an operator and does not (apart from special constructs) get to manipulate fractions as such.</p></li>
<li><p><code>\xintnewdummy</code> is public interface to a <code>1.2e</code> macro which serves to declare any given catcode 11 character as a dummy variable for expressions (<strong>xintexpr</strong>). This is useful for Unicode engines (the Latin letters being already all pre-declared as dummy variables.)</p></li>
@@ -292,7 +306,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p><code>\xintiiSquareRoot{0}</code> now produces <code>{1}{1}</code>, which fits better the general documented behaviour of this macro than <code>11</code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="j-20161222"><code>1.2j (2016/12/22)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-8">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-9">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xinttools</strong> and <strong>xintexpr</strong>:</p>
<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
@@ -306,15 +320,15 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li>fix two <code>1.2i</code> regressions caused by undefined macros (<code>\xintNthElt</code> in certain branches and <code>[list][N]</code> item extraction in certain cases.) The test files existed but were not executed prior to release. Automation in progress.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="i-20161213"><code>1.2i (2016/12/13)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-7">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes-6">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>\xintDecSplit</code> second argument must have no sign (former code replaced it with its absolute value, a sign now may cause an error.)</li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="removed-1">Removed</h3>
+<h3 id="removed-2">Removed</h3>
<ul>
<li>deprecated macros <code>\xintifTrue</code>, <code>\xintifTrueFalse</code>, <code>\xintQuo</code>, <code>\xintRem</code>, <code>\xintquo</code>, <code>\xintrem</code>.</li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-9">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-10">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>xintkernel</strong>: <code>\xintLength</code> is faster. New macros:</p>
<ul>
@@ -338,7 +352,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><code>\xintDecSplitL</code> and <code>\xintDecSplitR</code> from <strong>xint</strong> produced their output in a spurious brace pair (bug introduced in <code>1.2f</code>).</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="h-20161120"><code>1.2h (2016/11/20)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-10">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-11">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>new macro <code>\xintNewFunction</code> in <strong>xintexpr</strong> which allows to extend the parser syntax with functions in situations where <code>\xintdeffunc</code> is not usable (typically, because dummy variables are used over a not yet determined range of values because it depends on the variables).</p></li>
<li><p>after three years of strict obedience to <code>xint</code> prefix, now <code>\thexintexpr</code>, <code>\thexintiexpr</code>, <code>\thexintfloatexpr</code>, and <code>\thexintiiexpr</code> are provided as synonyms to <code>\xinttheexpr</code>, etc...</p></li>
@@ -351,12 +365,12 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p>the <code>add</code> and <code>mul</code> from <strong>xintexpr</strong>, which work with dummy variables since <code>1.1</code>, raised an error since <code>1.2c 2015/11/16</code> when the dummy variable was given an empty range (or list) of values, rather than producing respectively <code>0</code> and <code>1</code> as formerly.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="g-20160319"><code>1.2g (2016/03/19)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-8">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes-7">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>inside expressions, list item selector <code>[L][n]</code> counts starting at zero, not at one. This is more coherent with <code>[L][a:b]</code> which was already exactly like in Python since its introduction. A function len(L) replaces earlier <code>[L][0]</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>former <code>iter</code> keyword now called <code>iterr</code>. Indeed it matched with <code>rrseq</code>, the new <code>iter</code> (which was somehow missing from <code>1.1</code>) is the one matching <code>rseq</code>. Allows to iterate more easily with a &quot;list&quot; variable.</p></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-11">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-12">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>in <strong>xintexpr.sty</strong>: list selectors <code>[L][n]</code> and <code>[L][a:b]</code> are more efficient: the earlier <code>1.1</code> routines did back and forth conversions from comma separated values to braced tokens, the <code>1.2g</code> routines use macros from <strong>xinttools.sty</strong> handling directly the encountered lists of comma separated values.</p></li>
<li><p>in <strong>xinttools.sty</strong>: slight improvements in the efficiency of the <code>\xintNthElt</code>, <code>\xintKeep</code>, <code>\xintTrim</code> routines and new routines handling directly comma separated values. The latter are not included in the user manual (they are not <code>\long</code>, they don't make efforts to preserve some braces, do not worry about spaces, all those worries being irrelevant to the use in expressions for list selectors).</p></li>
@@ -365,11 +379,11 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p>the syntax of expressions is described in a devoted chapter of the documentation; an example shows how to implement (expandably) the Brent-Salamin algorithm for computation of Pi using <code>iter</code> in a float expression.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="f-20160312"><code>1.2f (2016/03/12)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-9">Incompatible changes</h3>
+<h3 id="incompatible-changes-8">Incompatible changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>no more <code>\xintFac</code> macro but <code>\xintiFac/\xintiiFac/\xintFloatFac</code>.</li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-12">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-13">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>functions <code>binomial</code>, <code>pfactorial</code> and <code>factorial</code> in both integer and float versions.</p></li>
<li><p>macros <code>\xintiiBinomial</code>, <code>\xintiiPFactorial</code> (<strong>xint.sty</strong>) and <code>\xintFloatBinomial</code>, <code>\xintFloatPFactorial</code> (<strong>xintfrac.sty</strong>). Improvements to <code>\xintFloatFac</code>.</p></li>
@@ -390,7 +404,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p>the comparison operators were not recognized by <code>\xintNewIIExpr</code> and <code>\xintdefiifunc</code> constructs.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="e-20151122"><code>1.2e (2015/11/22)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-13">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-14">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>macro <code>\xintunassignvar</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>slight modifications of the logged messages in case of <code>\xintverbosetrue</code>.</p></li>
@@ -404,7 +418,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p>in <strong>xintexpr</strong>: contrarily to what <code>1.2d</code> documentation said, tacit multiplication was not yet always done with enhanced precedence. Now yes.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="d-20151118"><code>1.2d (2015/11/18)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-14">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-15">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>the function definitions done by <code>\xintdeffunc</code> et al., as well as the macro declarations by <code>\xintNewExpr</code> et al. now have only local scope.</p></li>
<li><p>tacit multiplication applies to more cases, for example (x+y)z, and always ties more than standard * infix operator, e.g. x/2y is like x/(2*y).</p></li>
@@ -415,7 +429,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li>in <strong>xintcore</strong>: release <code>1.2c</code> had inadvertently broken the <code>\xintiiDivRound</code> macro.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="c-20151116"><code>1.2c (2015/11/16)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-15">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-16">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>macros <code>\xintdeffunc</code>, <code>\xintdefiifunc</code>, <code>\xintdeffloatfunc</code> and boolean <code>\ifxintverbose</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>on-going code improvements and documentation enhancements, but stopped in order to issue this bugfix release.</p></li>
@@ -430,7 +444,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li>in <strong>xintcore</strong>: recent release <code>1.2</code> introduced a bug in the division macros, causing a crash when the divisor started with 99999999 (it was attempted to use with 1+99999999 a subroutine expecting only 8-digits numbers).</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="a-20151019"><code>1.2a (2015/10/19)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-16">Improvements and new features</h3>
+<h3 id="improvements-and-new-features-17">Improvements and new features</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>added <code>\xintKeepUnbraced</code>, <code>\xintTrimUnbraced</code> (<strong>xinttools</strong>) and fixed documentation of <code>\xintKeep</code> and <code>\xintTrim</code> regarding brace stripping.</p></li>
<li><p>added <code>\xintiiMaxof/\xintiiMinof</code> (<strong>xint</strong>).</p></li>
@@ -441,11 +455,11 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li>in <strong>xintexpr</strong>: recent release <code>1.2</code> introduced a bad bug in the parsing of decimal numbers and as a result <code>\xinttheexpr 0.01\relax</code> expanded to <code>0</code> ! (sigh...)</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="section-1"><code>1.2 (2015/10/10)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="removed-2">Removed</h3>
+<h3 id="removed-3">Removed</h3>
<ul>
<li>the macros <code>\xintAdd</code>, <code>\xintSub</code>, <code>\xintMul</code>, <code>\xintMax</code>, <code>\xintMin</code>, <code>\xintMaxof</code>, <code>\xintMinof</code> are removed from package <strong>xint</strong>, and only exist in the versions from <strong>xintfrac</strong>. With only <strong>xintcore</strong> or <strong>xint</strong> loaded, one <em>must</em> use <code>\xintiiAdd</code>, <code>\xintiiSub</code>, ..., or <code>\xintiAdd</code>, <code>\xintiSub</code>, etc...</li>
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<li><p>the basic arithmetic implemented in <strong>xintcore</strong> has been entirely rewritten. The mathematics remains the elementary school one, but the <code>TeX</code> implementation achieves higher speed (except, regarding addition/subtraction, for numbers up to about thirty digits), the gains becoming quite significant for numbers with hundreds of digits.</p></li>
<li><p>the inputs must have less than 19959 digits. But computations with thousands of digits take time.</p></li>
@@ -479,7 +493,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p>various typographical fixes throughout the documentation, and a bit of clean up of the code comments. Improved <code>\Factors</code> example of nested <code>subs</code>, <code>rseq</code>, <code>iter</code> in <code>\xintiiexpr</code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="section-2"><code>1.1 (2014/10/28)</code></h2>
-<h3 id="incompatible-changes-10">Incompatible changes</h3>
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<ul>
<li><p>in <code>\xintiiexpr</code>, <code>/</code> does <em>rounded</em> division, rather than the Euclidean division (for positive arguments, this is truncated division). The <code>//</code> operator does truncated division,</p></li>
<li><p>the <code>:</code> operator for three-way branching is gone, replaced with <code>??</code>,</p></li>
@@ -489,7 +503,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p>in earlier releases, place holders for <code>\xintNewExpr</code> could either be denoted <code>#1</code>, <code>#2</code>, ... or also <code>$1</code>, <code>$2</code>, ... Only the usual <code>#</code> form is now accepted and the special cases previously treated via the second form are now managed via a <code>protect(...)</code> function.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>xintfrac</strong>: <code>\xintFloor</code> and <code>\xintCeil</code> add a trailing <code>/1[0]</code> to their (integer) output. New <code>\xintiFloor</code> and <code>\xintiCeil</code> do not.</p></li>
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<li><code>\xintnumexpr</code>, <code>\xintthenumexpr</code>, <code>\xintNewNumExpr</code>: use <code>\xintiexpr</code>, <code>\xinttheiexpr</code>, <code>\xintNewIExpr</code>.</li>
</ul>
@@ -499,7 +513,7 @@ License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
<li><p><code>\xintMax</code>, <code>\xintMin</code>, <code>\xintAdd</code>, <code>\xintSub</code>, <code>\xintMul</code> (<strong>xint</strong>): their usage without <strong>xintfrac</strong> is deprecated; use <code>\xintiMax</code>, <code>\xintiMin</code>, <code>\xintiAdd</code>, <code>\xintiSub</code>, <code>\xintiMul</code>.</p></li>
<li><p>the <code>&amp;</code> and <code>|</code> as Boolean operators in <code>xintexpr</code>-essions are deprecated in favour of <code>&amp;&amp;</code> and <code>||</code>. The single letter operators might be assigned some other meaning in some later release (bitwise operations, perhaps). Do not use them.</p></li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li><p>new package <strong>xintcore</strong> has been split off <strong>xint</strong>. It contains the core arithmetic macros (it is loaded by LaTeX package <strong>bnumexpr</strong>),</p></li>
<li><p>neither <strong>xint</strong> nor <strong>xintfrac</strong> load <strong>xinttools</strong>. Only <strong>xintexpr</strong> does,</p></li>
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- Source: xint.dtx 1.3a 2018/03/07 (doc 2018/03/07)
+ Source: xint.dtx 1.3b 2018/05/18 (doc 2018/05/18)
Author: Jean-Francois Burnol
Info: Expandable operations on big integers, decimals, fractions
License: LPPL 1.3c
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<li><a href="#license">License</a></li>
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Author: Jean-Francois Burnol
Info: Expandable operations on big integers, decimals, fractions
License: LPPL 1.3c</code></pre>
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