Re: Fw: BCD-lib

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On 14 Apr 2002, at 21:40, a.tammer at hetnet.nl wrote:

> 
> Simply, Kat for the next reason
> 
> why exponent? because 90(rep 9M -1 times) could be written as {9437183,{1})
> ISO
> {1,0..rep 1048575} thus taking 2 integers(8 bytes) and not 1048576 integers
> being 4Mb. that's why.

I don't understand. Can you explain?

Also, how is an exponent going to help if i have pi written out to 10 pages of 
significant digits, and i want to divide by some number with 50 significant 
digits?

Kat

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