Changes for version 0.17

  • Perl 5.8.1 - 5.8.7 miscalculates 12345 ** 4, which I used in a test.
  • Fix (hopefully) for MSC compilation.
  • Unroll sieve loop for another 20% or so speedup. It won't have much practical application now that we use Lehmer's method for counts, but there are some cases that can still show speedups.
  • Changed the rand functionality yet again. Sorry. This should give better support for plugging in crypto RNG's when used from other modules.

Modules

Utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring
An auto-free object for Math::Prime::Util
Pure Perl version of Math::Prime::Util
A tied array for primes
Perl Big Float versions of Riemann Zeta and R functions