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From: alfred@dutepp1.tudelft.nl (Alfred Kayser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: IBM PC XScheme numbers representation?
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Date: 27 Jul 90 08:06:14 GMT
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grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) writes:
>>>>>> 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.
>not true. libg++ for the Gnu G++ compiler provides classes Integer
>(basically a bignum) and Rational. They're fast too.
So it may be, but to my understanding is C++ not equal to C.
No flames intended.
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