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 # Performance
 
 See https://github.com/tczajka/bigint-benchmark-rs
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+# Acknowledgement
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+`malachite-bigint` was created by [Steve Shi](https://github.com/qingshi163) to provide an alternative bigint implementation for [RustPython](https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython.git).
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+This project is contributed to the malachite project and will be integrated to malachite 0.5.0.