From: "Brian Catlin" <briancatlin@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:37:30 -0800
Date: 2001-03-09T20:37:31+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98beub$co8$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn9ai9uk.iv9.georg@apal.ii.uib.no
Try the Big Numbers Page: http://www.chez.com/bignumber/index.html
-Brian
"Hans Georg Schaathun" <georg@ii.uib.no> wrote in message
news:slrn9ai9uk.iv9.georg@apal.ii.uib.no...
> I need a tool to solve large systems of linear equations, with no
> floating point operations (or any other approximations) allowed.
> Even though I am not a seasoned programmer, I think I'll have to
> write the tool myself.
>
> My question is, will it be reasonably simple to handle large
> rational numbers with Ada? Is there any packages for this?
>
> Does basic Ada (gnat) support (f.ex.) 2048-bit integers? Does
> any module exist for integers of dynamic size? Are these
> handled reasonably efficiently, or is there much overhead?
>
> I guess I will manage to implement the rational numbers without
> too much hardship, but I really don't feel like implementing
> arithmetics on large integers.
>
> :-- Hans Georg
> --
> Signature en panne.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-09 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-09 18:58 Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?) Hans Georg Schaathun
2001-03-09 19:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-09 20:44 ` David Starner
2001-03-09 23:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-10 2:56 ` David Starner
2001-03-10 11:37 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-10 6:08 ` tmoran
2001-03-09 21:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-03-09 23:02 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-09 23:28 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-10 16:49 ` Hans Georg Schaathun
2001-03-10 11:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-03-09 20:37 ` Brian Catlin [this message]
2001-03-09 21:26 ` JP Thornley
2001-03-09 21:59 ` Tucker Taft
2001-03-15 8:33 ` Modular type (Re: Large numbers) Hans Georg Schaathun
2001-03-15 10:58 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-15 11:12 ` Hans Georg Schaathun
2001-03-15 16:24 ` Tucker Taft
2001-03-10 1:42 ` Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?) Keith Thompson
2001-03-19 20:48 ` Robert I. Eachus
2001-03-20 3:33 ` Brian Rogoff
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