From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,69bb03cc695b330a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-09 12:38:14 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: "Brian Catlin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:37:30 -0800 Organization: Sannas Consulting Message-ID: <98beub$co8$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: a5.f7.ed.5e X-Server-Date: 9 Mar 2001 20:37:31 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5580 Date: 2001-03-09T20:37:31+00:00 List-Id: Try the Big Numbers Page: http://www.chez.com/bignumber/index.html -Brian "Hans Georg Schaathun" 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.