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 22:10:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?) References: <98bo2p$njh$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 06:08:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 984204489 24.20.190.201 (Fri, 09 Mar 2001 22:08:09 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 22:08:09 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5599 Date: 2001-03-10T06:08:09+00:00 List-Id: >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. ;)