Re: Breaking down a large hex number.

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Robert Craig wrote:
>
> RedWordSmith writes:
> > blue = #1111222233333344444455677777789ABBBBBBCDEFF11
> > --Euphoria informs me this is about 1e+053
>
> Be careful. atoms are only accurate to about
> 15 or 16 decimal digits, and something fewer in hex digits.

Ouch.  I forgot about that.  Thanks.

I suppose the solution I had in mind won't work at all (oops).  Not a big
problem, I'll just have to store things proper instead of the admittedly
bizarre (but much more easily modifiable) format I had in mind, and load
information into the final sequence as it is read.

--
                 Nic (RedWord)Smith
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        http://nic.dreamhost.com/alt.config

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