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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: IBM PC XScheme numbers representation?
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Date: 26 Jul 90 05:30:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: alfred@dutepp1.tudelft.nl's message of 24 Jul 90 08:54:24 GMT

>>>>> On 24 Jul 90 08:54:24 GMT, alfred@dutepp1.tudelft.nl (Alfred Kayser) said:
AK> The bignumber system as supported by most Scheme implementations (except
AK> XScheme) doesn't exist in C.
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not true. libg++ for the Gnu G++ compiler provides classes Integer
(basically a bignum) and Rational. They're fast too.