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> Anyway, do competitive programmers tend to program everything from scratch, or is there another reason they don't just use GMP?

I think directly using algorithms and programs implemented by others would be considered cheating (and these libraries are not presented on the server which checks your answer anyway). In competitive programming, participants compete their own ability and knowledge to implement algorithms.

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In ACM ICPC, we could bring printouts of library code and manually transcribe them into the computer. IIRC, FFT was apart of our team's library code, but you wouldn't use GMP since it would require too much typing.

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In C++ thanks to complex the implementation is short see https://ideone.com/tbHUN7

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C99 has complex, too. I think most competitive programming contests are now using C99, finally.