1. Bignums
- Posted by axtens_bruce Feb 05, 2023
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What's the search term that gives me what Euphoria does with bignums in the manual?
-Bruce
2. Re: Bignums
- Posted by katsmeow Feb 05, 2023
- 583 views
What's the search term that gives me what Euphoria does with bignums in the manual?
-Bruce
I called it string math?
Last i think i had anything to do with it was this:
https://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/18531.wc
Kat
3. Re: Bignums
- Posted by axtens_bruce Feb 06, 2023
- 517 views
I had forgotten about bignum-eu which I wrote back in the early 2000s. It seems I once knew a lot more about Euphoria than I do now. Mind you, that was probably before 14 years of prozac.
4. Re: Bignums
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Feb 06, 2023
- 465 views
What's the search term that gives me what Euphoria does with bignums in the manual?
-Bruce
Not sure if we support bignums in the stdlib yet.
I remember http://www.rapideuphoria.com/httphttp://malcom.unkmar.com/hol/FilesEu/bigfixed-0.6704.zip from Lucius L. Hilley III but I am not sure where to obtain a copy now that his website down.
5. Re: Bignums
- Posted by katsmeow Feb 06, 2023
- 460 views
What's the search term that gives me what Euphoria does with bignums in the manual?
-Bruce
Not sure if we support bignums in the stdlib yet.
I remember http://www.rapideuphoria.com/httphttp://malcom.unkmar.com/hol/FilesEu/bigfixed-0.6704.zip from Lucius L. Hilley III but I am not sure where to obtain a copy now that his website down.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160805161737/http://malcom.unkmar.com/hol/FilesEu/bigfixed-0.6704.zip
Something is screwing up the urls on mine and Jim's post. Cure: wrap it in eucode tags.
Kat
6. Re: Bignums
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Feb 06, 2023
- 452 views
I remember http://www.rapideuphoria.com/httphttp://malcom.unkmar.com/hol/FilesEu/bigfixed-0.6704.zip from Lucius L. Hilley III but I am not sure where to obtain a copy now that his website down.
http://web.archive.org/web/20160805161737/http://malcom.unkmar.com/hol/FilesEu/bigfixed-0.6704.zip
Brilliant! Thanks for that.
Something is screwing up the urls on mine and Jim's post. Cure: wrap it in eucode tags.
Kat
+1
7. Re: Bignums
- Posted by petelomax Feb 06, 2023
- 447 views
I had forgotten about bignum-eu which I wrote back in the early 2000s.
I feel I do have to say that memoising a bignum library is a really, really, really bad idea...
Maybe, and it's still not a good idea, you might get away with just the last ~100 calcs...
But any serious use, and it is just simply and quite severely crippled.
PS: I wrapped Carogan's bigatom for Phix, but then I discovered mpfr and it just totally blew it away.
8. Re: Bignums
- Posted by axtens_bruce Feb 06, 2023
- 382 views
... then I discovered mpfr and it just totally blew it away.
GMP/MPFR are far and away the best there is and something I could never do. I don't think I knew much about using DLLs in Euphoria at the time. I found Skiena's code and tried to port it. Then got busy with other things, including Depression.
-Bruce
