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Postings from July 2001
On Friday 06 July 2001 10:13 am, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I should point out that the internal representation of large numbers isn't > going to be huge strings of ASCII characters--we'll probably be an array > of 15-bit integers. (As Hong pointed out a while ago, doing that makes > handling multiplication reasonably simple. Might go to arrays of 31-bit > integers on 64-bit platforms) Though I might be misreading you here. (I > probably am) Actually, you *shouldn't* have to point that at. No, you weren't misreading me, and Yes, Virginia, I am a fucking idiot. I can't even think of what I may have been thinking of. We have talked about this before. I write the damn summaries, for crying out loud!!!! Arggh! -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@capita.com