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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: How can I use huge || very small number?
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 16:08:45 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <315681F3.314D@blue.nowcom.co.kr> <4joh0l$jch@news.acns.nwu.edu> <4jpep5$db2@penage.cs.laurentian.ca> <4judhq$1vf6@columba.udac.uu.se>
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- In article <4judhq$1vf6@columba.udac.uu.se>,
- Erik Trulsson <trulsson@student.docs.uu.se> wrote:
- >> I don't think 10000! will fit a long double. So why not store it on
- >> an array (or a linked list) of longs?
-
- >It won't fit into any standard data type.
-
- Although it is not *guaranteed* to fit into any standard data type,
- there is no requirement that it can't.
-
- Admittedly, an implementation with 130,000+ bit integers is unlikely
- at this time, but there's nothing illegal about it that I can see.
-
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