Overview
Arb, Calcium and Antic
Arb, Calcium and Antic were developed as separate libraries on top of FLINT 2 and merged into FLINT 3.0 in 2023, at versions Arb 2.23, Calcium 0.4 and Antic 0.2.5; their modules (arb, acb, ca, qqbar, nf_elem, qfb, ...) kept their names. The pages below give their release notes up to the merge, newest first.
In this section#
HistoryArbReleases of Arb from 2012 to 2022, until the merge into FLINT 3.0: the mag, arf, arb and acb modules of Arb 2.0, power series, hypergeometric and other special functions, elliptic functions and integrals, Riemann zeta zeros, floating-point wrappers and multithreading.HistoryCalciumReleases of Calcium 0.1 to 0.4 (2020–2021), the library for exact real and complex numbers that was merged into FLINT 3.0.HistoryAnticReleases of Antic 0.1 to 0.2.5 (2013–2021), the library for number fields and binary quadratic forms that was merged into FLINT 3.0.
Cite this page
The FLINT team, “Arb, Calcium and Antic,” FLINT: Fast Library for Number Theory, documentation, version 3.7.0-dev, 2026. https://flintlib.org/doc/history/merged/index.html (generated 2026-10-20).
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