1995-09-01 - Re: sums with BIG numbers

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From: Deranged Mutant <rrothenb@ic.sunysb.edu>
To: scmayo@rschp1.anu.edu.au (Sherry Mayo)
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UTC Datetime: 1995-09-01 03:20:28 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 20:20:28 PDT

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From: Deranged Mutant <rrothenb@ic.sunysb.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 95 20:20:28 PDT
To: scmayo@rschp1.anu.edu.au (Sherry Mayo)
Subject: Re: sums with BIG numbers
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> Can anyone point me to any books, documentation or
> whatever that will explain the methods used in routines
> like bignum for doing sums with 'too-big' numbers.
> 
> I'm having a tough time trying to figure it out from the code 
> ;-(
> 
> Sherry
> 
What do you mean? How big numbers are added (trivially easier than multiplication
or division) or how it handles numbers that are too large for the variable's
size?






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