On Mar 13, 2006, at 4:43 PM, Jay Austad wrote: > I need to do some calculations on very large numbers, and bc won't > handle it. Does anyone know if a good tool which doesn't really have > a limit on the size of numbers that it can deal with? Something > preferably free, I only really need to do one calculation to find out > the probability of something, but it's fairly complex and has huge > numbers in it. Python handles large ints pretty well. You could just fire up the python interpreter (type 'python' in a shell) and start entering your numbers is regular mathematical notation. -Tim -- Tim Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy mailto: wilson at visi.com aim: tis270 blog: http://technosavvy.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060313/aa783de5/attachment.htm