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- From: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson)
- Subject: Re: POWER OF LARGE NUMBERS
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:33:28 GMT
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- u8705957@cs.uow.edu.au (Hitesh Sanghvi) writes:
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- >Hello there;
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- > Does any one know how to raise power of possibly 100 digits
- >to possibly 100 digits. Any algorithm or code will be appriciated.
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- >Example >(1234367463746464647464...up to 100 digit)**(647254627463048736...up to 100 digit)
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- The order of magnitude of the solution to this problem is
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- 10**(10**102)
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- which is a ridiculously large number. I would imagine that the number
- of significant digits in the answer is of roughly similar magnitude
- unless we place some special restrictions on input values. Is there
- any hope of solving this?
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- What do you netters think?
-