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Subject: Long integers on the Cray?
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Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 20:51:02 EDT
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Not sure where this ought to go, but these two groups look best.

Since Berkeley has just acquired a Cray, and I like playing with large
integers (100+ digits), having software to use the hardware that makes
the Cray go fast to deal with these becomes of interest. A quick
glance at the problem makes it look like you can do 1400+ bit adds in
1-2 nanoseconds/bit using the vector hardware.

Anyone got this (other than the NSA, who probably doesn't want to let
me have their code :-)? Anyone interested in it should I write it?

	Thanx,
	<mike