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Make no-float policy explicit
We don't want floating types for various reasons, e.g., - Their representation and often their behavior is implementation-defined. - Many targets don't support them.
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* Extensive testing infrastructure.
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* Structured to facilitate review and analysis.
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* Intended to be portable to any system with a C89 compiler and uint64_t support.
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* No use of floating types, except in benchmarks.
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* Expose only higher level interfaces to minimize the API surface and improve application security. ("Be difficult to use insecurely.")
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* Field operations
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* Optimized implementation of arithmetic modulo the curve's field size (2^256 - 0x1000003D1).

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