1996-01-18 - Base conversion

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From: grimm@MIT.EDU
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 23f02e3122aee2161621983a2cfaf659ba01116eb2249c71aaf206c0b96b3d36
Message ID: <9601170548.AA04146@vongole.MIT.EDU>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-01-18 01:37:22 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:37:22 +0800

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From: grimm@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:37:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Base conversion
Message-ID: <9601170548.AA04146@vongole.MIT.EDU>
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	I am trying to write some code to perform base conversions on
very large numbers (possibly as large as 256^(2^(ULONG_MAX))).
Specifically, I store the numbers in base 256, but I would like to be
able to print them in base 10.  Any really brillant ideas?

-James





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