Re: standard representations

2000-12-30 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Anyone know of a good bigint/bigfloat library whose terms are such that we > >can just snag the source and use it in perl? > > There was some traffic on gcc list recently about a GNU one (presumably G

Re: standard representations

2000-12-30 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >At 01:05 PM 12/29/00 +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> >I'm reasonably certain that all platforms that perl will ultimately run on >> >can muster hardware support for 16-bit integers. >> >>Hmm, most modern RI

Re: standard representations

2000-12-30 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Anyone know of a good bigint/bigfloat library whose terms are such that we >can just snag the source and use it in perl? There was some traffic on gcc list recently about a GNU one (presumably GPL only). >I don't really care to write >the code for di