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factor compiled without bignum support

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factor (from GNU coreutils) in Ubuntu Lucid appears to be compiled without bignum support. According to the info page:
   If `factor' is built without using GNU MP, only single-precision
arithmetic is available, and so large numbers (typically 2^64 and
above) will not be supported.

Example:
user@host:/$ factor 123456789098765432123456789
factor: `123456789098765432123456789' is too large

What is the reason for not supporting bignums?

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Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus) said : 		#1

I would guess that as factor is part of coreutils, and coreutils is, well, core, the maintainers of the package don't want to add GMP as a build and runtime dependency. Perhaps you should convert this question in to a bug if no one gives you an authoritative answer in a few days requesting that it be supported.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#2

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