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Date: 27 Jul 93 06:13:38 GMT
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o.ac.nz!pgorman@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Paul Gorman)
Subject: Re: ADA arithmetic
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Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote:
> In article <1993Jul26.134358.1@otago.ac.nz> is20115@otago.ac.nz writes:
> >I am currently working on a program which requires arithmetic to be performe
d
> >on numbers of up to 16 digits long.  Has anyone out ther written a package
> >which will do this?  Add & Subtract would suffice but * & divide and MOD wou
ld
> >be a big help.  If anyone has one of these could they please mail to source
> >code to COSC214.OTAGO.AC.NZ  this would be much appreciated.
> >
> Ummm - is this a class problem? If so, does your teacher know you're out
> on the net instead of working on it?

> Mike Feldman

The teacher knows now, he is one of my colleagues and I noticed the posting
the other day. The assignment is to implement the RSA Public Key cryptography
system. I think they have been given a reference in a book for algorithms to
use for the operations on the type.

Paul Gorman.
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