[M3devel] Arbitrary precision integers

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Dec 29 01:42:24 CET 2008


On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Martin Bishop wrote:

> Does Modula-3 (or one of it's implementations) support arbitrary
> precision integers?

http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/doc/help/gen_html/arithmetic/src/basictypes/biginteger/BigInteger.i3.html

It's not well optimized and maybe not enough tested. If you find it too 
slow, you might write wrapper to the GNU multiprecision library GMP. Maybe 
SWIG can help writing the wrapper. (or you try Haskell, which also uses 
GMP :-)



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