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From: Bill Stewart (bill.stewartpobox.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 02:57:54 CST

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    Check out the Gnu Multiple Precision library, GMP;
    it shouldn't be too hard to build some command-line hooks to it.

    At 12:06 PM 11/01/2001 +1300, nonme wrote:
    >I have been using the commandline tool bc (under linux) for doing maths
    >with huge numbers, I was wondering if anybody else knew of other similar
    >tools I am running into limitations with bc such as
    >obase=16
    >FFFFFFFF^FFFFFFFFFF
    >Runtime error (func=(main), adr=23): exponent too large in raise
    >(yes I need to actually calculate this)