From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 06:08:09 GMT
Date: 2001-03-10T06:08:09+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dxjq6.12568$zV3.1116829@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 98bo2p$njh$1@nh.pace.co.uk
>For matrix stuff, you might theoretically be able to handle the math
>entirely in fractions, but would you like the solution in our lifetime? :-)
An extremely long time ago I did a polynomial arithmetic package
explicitly for getting algebraic solutions of matrix inversions.
I recall inverting a matrix sounded like a bottle being filled with
water on the speaker hooked to the CDC1604. And machines today are
even faster. ;)
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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 [this message]
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
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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