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1.1     ! maekawa     1: This directory contains functions for GMP's floating-point function layer.
        !             2:
        !             3: In this version of GMP, floating-point numbers are represented like in the
        !             4: figure below.  (Please note that the format might change between every
        !             5: version, and that depending on the internal format in any way is a bad idea.)
        !             6:
        !             7:    most                                least
        !             8: significant                 significant
        !             9:    limb                                limb
        !            10:
        !            11:                                 _mp_d
        !            12:                                  /
        !            13:                                 /
        !            14:                                \/
        !            15:        <-- _mp_exp -->
        !            16:         ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
        !            17:        |____|____|____|____|____|
        !            18:                       . <------------- radix point
        !            19:
        !            20:        <------- _mp_size ------->
        !            21:
        !            22:
        !            23: The most significant limb will be non-zero.  The _mp_exp field is the distance
        !            24: in number of limbs from the radix point to the most significant limb; it will
        !            25: be positive iff the absolute value of the number is >= 1.  The _mp_size
        !            26: field's sign reflects the sign of the number.  Its absolute value is the count
        !            27: of limbs in the number.