Can you use perl's Math::BigInt and family?

-Steve

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:33:46PM -0600, Jay Austad wrote:
> Pari looks interesting.  I'm reading the docs, and it doesn't look  
> like it will handle the size of the numbers I'm dealing with  
> (2^4000000000 and larger).  I've used some approximation techniques  
> to get my answer, however, I've tried 3 of them, and they all give me  
> numbers that are way different.  I need an exact answer.  Eventually,  
> I need a way to do this calculation fast too.  Does anyone here have  
> a really good understanding of math and experience with FPGA's?
> 
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Florin Iucha wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:43:03PM -0600, 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.
> >
> > Pari:
> >
> >    http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/
> >
> >    http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dw/maths/PARI.pdf
> >
> > florin
> >
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