Math::GMP - High speed arbitrary size integer math
use Math::GMP;
my $n = Math::GMP->new('2');
$n = $n ** (256*1024);
$n = $n - 1;
print "n is now $n\n";Math::GMP gives you access to the fast GMP library for fast big integer math.
Chip Turner chip@redhat.com, based on Math::BigInt by Mark Biggar and Ilya Zakharevich. Further extensive work provided by Tels tels@bloodgate.com. Later non-extensive work by Greg Sabino Mullane. Later work by Shlomi Fish while putting his changes under CC0.
See dzil / Dist-Zilla (also https://metacpan.org/pod/Dist::Zilla ) for how to build from the dist.ini-based repository sources.