1994-08-24 - Re: Brands cash

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From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-08-24 15:08:47 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 08:08:47 PDT

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From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 08:08:47 PDT
To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Subject: Re: Brands cash
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> Unfortunately, I don't think perl is suitable, as it has no facilities for
> multiprecision arithmetic.

There is some multiprecision arithmetic in perl, but it's implemented as
user-level functions, not as a builtin feature.  Look at the bigint.pl,
bigrat.pl and bigfloat.pl packages supplied with perl4.

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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• 1994-08-24 (Tue, 23 Aug 94 17:23:08 PDT) - Re: Brands cash - “Rick H. Wesson” <wessorh@ar.com>
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