From: "PEAR Announce" on
The new PEAR package Math_BigInteger-1.0.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- significant speed-ups
- new functions: gcd(), extendedGCD(), isPrime(), random(), randomPrime(), bitwise_leftRotate(), bitwise_rightRotate(), setPrecision(), toHex(), toBits() and equals()
- PHP_Compat is now optional. Store it in your include path if you require PHP4 support but otherwise it is unrequired.

Package Info
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Supports base-2, base-10, base-16, and base-256 numbers. Uses the GMP or BCMath extensions, if available, and an internal implementation, otherwise.

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Math_BigInteger
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Math_BigInteger/download/1.0.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Math_BigInteger-1.0.0.tgz

Authors
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Jim Wigginton (lead)