Extracted from Pike v8.0 release 28 as of 2015-08-03.
   

Method Gmp.mpz()->create()


Method create

Gmp.mpz Gmp.mpz()
Gmp.mpz Gmp.mpz(string|int|float|object value)
Gmp.mpz Gmp.mpz(string value, int(2..36)|int(256..256) base)

Description

Create and initialize a Gmp.mpz object.

Parameter value

Initial value. If no value is specified, the object will be initialized to zero.

Parameter base

Base the value is specified in. The default base is base 10. The base can be either a value in the range [2..36] (inclusive), in which case the numbers are taken from the ASCII range 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (case-insensitive), or the value 256, in which case value is taken to be the binary representation in network byte order.

Values in base [2..36] can be prefixed with "+" or "-". Values prefixed with "0b" or "0B" will be interpreted as binary. Values prefixed with "0x" or "0X" will be interpreted as hexadecimal. Values prefixed with "0" will be interpreted as octal.

Note

Leading zeroes in value are not significant when a base is explicitly given. In particular leading NUL characters are not preserved in base 256 mode.