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From: bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: 32 Bt Mant is < I need!
Message-ID: <10060@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 90 07:01:56 GMT
References: <276057f4:1381comp.sys.handhelds@hpcvbbs.UUCP> <1990Dec10.034626.27415@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Dec10.034626.27415@cc.ic.ac.uk> umapd51@cc.ic.ac.uk (W.A.C. Mier-Jedrzejowicz) writes:
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>If you need really BIG binary numbers like this then an HP-16C is THE
>way to go! Of course, if you are using these BIG binary numbers as part
>of some other HP48SX operation then this is not much help :-(

It might be an interesting (if overly complex) project to try to implement
  extended-precision math functions in machine language.  You would
  have to hack a new type for entry and display - say, a string with the 
  first character a # or somesuch.  But you could do arbitrarily high
  precision math.  Left as an exercise for the reader :-)  

>Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz, Space & Atmospheric Physics, Imperial College,
>London.

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