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Re: Arbitrary precision integer arithmetic (reference sought)

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1989 12:00
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In article <6235@saturn.ucsc.edu> darrell@jupiter.ucsc.edu (Darrell Long) writes:
-I'm looking for a good reference on algorithms for arbitrary precision integer
-arithmetic.  I need to do it fast, so naive (elementary school) algorithms
-won't quite do it.

So what's wrong with the ones in Knuth?
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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.sources.wanted,sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Re: Arbitrary precision integer arithmetic (reference sought)
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Date: 5 Feb 89 12:00:46 GMT
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