Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs.help:571 comp.emacs:9727 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!IRO.UMontreal.CA!pinard From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Subject: Re: large numbers packages Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 90 16:48:02 GMT References: <9011250848.AA74043@sprite.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Dec11.150107.15148@prl.dec.com> Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA Organization: Universite' de Montre'al Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: herve@prl.dec.com's message of 11 Dec 90 15:01:07 GMT In article <1990Dec11.150107.15148@prl.dec.com> herve@prl.dec.com (Jean-Claude Herve) writes: > Is there a package for managing large integers (larger than the Emacs > builtin integer type)? We have a package named bignum containing a library managing big numbers of arbitrary length. In case this has not been written before on this thread, you might try Dave Gillespie's Calc package. It runs only on GNU Emacs, however. I do not have the reference handy, write to me if you want it. -- Franc,ois Pinard ``Vivement GNU!'' pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (514) 588-4656 cp 886 L'Epiphanie (Qc) J0K 1J0 ...!uunet!iros1!pinard