rop?

[Roberto Bagnara]

Daniel J Farrell wrote:
> I'm a little curious about the 'rop' the keeps appearing in all the  
> fuction definitions. There is alway advice in to what to set it do  
> but after searching the gmp manual I could find anything that  
> explains it?
> 
> For example the floating point power function.
> 
> void mpf_pow_ui (mpf_t rop, mpf_t op1, unsigned long int op2 )
> Set rop to op1 op2 .

I guess `rop' stands for "Result OPerand".
All the best,

     Roberto

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