On 3/23/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, March 22, 2007 2:33 pm, Tijnema ! wrote:
>> > 2). How do you handle numbers that large, while maintaining
>> precision.
>>
>> keep them as strings - and/or use a 64bit machine?
>
> a 64bit machine would make the number larger, not unlimited :)
Even GMP (or BC) isn't unlimited...
It's just limited to the number of bytes you have in RAM/swap. :-)
Yeah, well if you have a few TB of space, which you set up as swap,
the number would come really close to unlimited :) But of course it is
limited :P
So if you have 10 TB of swap(I believe current kernels can't handle
that, but that's another story) you could get a number as big as
2^87960930222081
Tell me any example where you would use a number larger than that :)
Tijnema
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