On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Tim Wilson wrote: > 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. Given that bc will handle 2^65536, I'm not sure. bc already does arbitrary precision bigints- if bc doesn't handle it well, I'm not sure what does. Brian