Re: Binary operations

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From: Thomas Wolf
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:31

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In article <3174C4C4.2781E494@brems.ii.uib.no>, Thomas Mork Farrelly <uk236@brems.ii.uib.no> writes:
:> I want to do mathematicle operations (add, mult, div) on
:> numbers of arbitrary length(number of bytes).
:> Where can I get such information?
:> 

D. E. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", Vol. 2, "Seminumerical
Algorithms".

If that's too mathematical for you, check out Snippets from any
SimTel mirror, it contains files "bignum?.[hc]" implementing
these algorithms in C. 

Regards,

  Thomas
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