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- From: bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman)
- Subject: Re: dividing 100 digit nos.?
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:56:00 GMT
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- In article <17g3f1INN220@hilbert.math.ksu.edu> bennett@math.ksu.edu (Andy Bennett) writes:
- >comptec91065@camins.camosun.bc.ca writes:
- >
- >> Can you help me locate the easiest method of dividing
- >> integers of at least 100 digits (possibly up to 4300 digits) ?
- >
- >Use UBASIC. This is a public domain basic developed by Yuji Kida in Japan
- >with full support for integers up to about 2500 digits. It also comes with
- >state of the art number theory algorithms already coded (for primality
-
- With all due respect: [this is not a flame]
-
- I do not believe that you answered the question that was asked, although
- you may have answered what the poster *meant to ask*.
-
- What was asked about was the easiest *method* for doing division on 100
- digit integers. That information can be found in Knuth Vol. 2
- The poster may have wanted to know how it is done, rather than wanted
- a black box to do it.
-
- I may be wrong, in that the poster was really asking where he could
- find software to perform what he wanted, but in absence of other information
- I answer what is asked, rather than try to fathom what is *meant*.
-
- Also, while UBASIC is an EXCELLENT piece of software, it isn't quite
- state-of-the art. [at least the version I have isn't.]
-
- If I am off base here, please tell me.
- --
- Bob Silverman
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