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- From: bromage@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Bromage)
- Subject: Re: Fixed point multiple precision arithmetic source?
- Message-ID: <9224014.16697@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:19:19 GMT
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- clem@bach.udel.edu (Clement Gray Taylor) writes:
-
- >In Dr. Dobb's Journal (August 1992) there is an article titled
- >"Multiple-Precision Arithmetic in C" that features a simple "big int"
- >package. Has anyone heard of a similar PD package that supports high
- >precision (say 256 bit) fixed point math. A graphics project that I am working
- >on requires such a package, and I currently don't have enough time to start
- >from scratch. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
- One of the many versions of Scheme which have appeared (I think it's
- CSCHEME) has a file called "bignum" which implements elementary
- operations on arbitrarily large floating point numbers. I'ts not really
- what you're after, sure, but a lot of the code could be easily modified.
-
- bromage@mullauna.cs.mu.oz.au
-