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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:52:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> <adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>We are in agreement on this.  It can be done with a home-grown package,
>>but having implemented a partial version of it, I can say it is not a trivial
>>thing to do in Ada.
> 
> 
> True.  The only really hard one is division -- it takes a couple hundred
> lines of arcane code.  But you can copy the algorithms out of Knuth.
> 
> Anyway, why not use the GNAT compiler's version?

<mischief>
Coz these days its GPL! :->
</mischief>