Re: [Rd] [R] big numbers

2006-08-23 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Robin Hankin wrote: > [[shifting to R-devel]] > > Hi Roger > > yes, I'm aware of gmp, but although it does handle big > numbers, it uses exact integer arithmetic, which would be > too slow for me. > > My example of 10^1 *(1+pi) ~= 4.14259*10^1 > would require gmp to process 1 digits,

Re: [Rd] [R] big numbers

2006-08-22 Thread Robin Hankin
[[shifting to R-devel]] Hi Roger yes, I'm aware of gmp, but although it does handle big numbers, it uses exact integer arithmetic, which would be too slow for me. My example of 10^1 *(1+pi) ~= 4.14259*10^1 would require gmp to process 1 digits, which would be time consuming. My best