Minor mistakes in the manual

Ivan Panchenko ivanpan3 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 10:22:41 CEST 2022


Hi,

I want to suggest some corrections to the manual (note that some of the
things occur multiple times; the original is shown on the left):

“the GPL).” → “the GPL.)”
“Opteron)” → “Opteron),”
“32-bit ad 64-bit” → “32-bit and 64-bit”
“be setup” → “be set up”
“{alphaev68}” → “{alphaev68},”
“though a path” → “through a path”
“need to done” → “need to be done”
“eg.” → “e.g.”
“MINGW” → “MinGW”
“64Mb” → “64 Mb”
“MacOS X” → “Mac OS X” (now called macOS)
“subdirectory, can be” → “subdirectory can be”
“functions is this class” → “functions in this class”
“, @xref” → “, @pxref”
“{Language Bindings}.)” → “{Language Bindings}).”
“no need extract” → “no need to extract”
“etc, make” → “etc. make”
“any of 23, 29 or 31” → “23, 29 or 31” (or “any of 23, 29 AND 31”!)
“the following in any report,” → “the following in any report:”
“letter represent” → “letters represent”
“), will cause” → “) will cause”
“twos complement” → “two's complement”
“to to ” → “to ”
“'th” → “th”
“one's complement” → “ones' complement”
“hamming” → “Hamming”
“older function” → “older functions”
“as a macros” → “as macros”
“{mpn_sub_n} with a” → “{mpn_sub_n} with an”
“@nicode{mp_bits_per_limb}@minus{}1” → “@nicode{mp_bits_per_limb}@math{{}-1}”
(for spacing)
“@code{GMP_RAND_ALG_DEFAULT} or 0” → “@code{GMP_RAND_ALG_DEFAULT} and 0”
“that it's possible to generate” → “it's possible to generate”
“in stored to” → “is stored to”
“to it's” → “to its”
“See @pxref” → “@xref”
“addition like,” → “addition like this:”
“the following points are used,” → “the following points are used:”
“, occurs” → “occurs”
“generalizes” → “generalize”
“when the two operand” → “when the two operands”
“+1, -1” → “+1, @m{-1}” (for minus sign)
“{\pm2^{-i},+-2^-i} .” → “{\pm2^{-i},+-2^-i}.”
“and interpolation, are” → “and interpolation are”
“log(2r+1)/log(r+1)” → “\log(2r+1)/\log(r+1)”
“0,1,2, at dots{}, at m{2r,2*r}” → “@m{0,1,2,\dots,2r,2*r}” (for spacing)
“@math{-r}, at dots{},0, at dots{}, at math{r}” → “@m{-r,\dots,0,\dots,r}”
“onto 2 coefficients” → “into 2 coefficients”
“one of @math{a} or @math{b}” → “one of @math{a} and @math{b}”
“fact the” → “fact that the”
“prediction).” → “prediction.)”
“e.g,” → “e.g.,”
“HGCD, @m{O(M(N)\log N),O(M(N)*log(N))}” → “HGCD, @m{O(M(N)\log
N),O(M(N)*log(N))}.”
“@m{(-1)^e,(-1)^e}” → “@m{(-1)^e,(-1)^e}.”
“compute the product” → “computes the product”
“computation pass trough” → “computations pass through”
“An helper” → “A helper”
“fraction the” → “fraction of the”
“will the top” → “will be the top”
“progress.  (@pxref” → “progress (@pxref”
“are setup” → “are set up”
“others, was” → “others was”
“the Mathematical department” → “the Mathematical Department”
“jacobi code” → “Jacobi code”
“GNU MP 2, were” → “GNU MP 2 was”
“floating Point” → “floating point”
“Postscript” → “PostScript”

Best regards
Ivan Panchenko


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