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

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