Re: [boost] Re: Extended binary numbers

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-09-20 20:08:23

At 03:38 PM 9/20/2000 -0600, Dan Nuffer wrote:

 >A few years ago I wrote a class like this.  It acts like a signed
 >integer and the range is only limited to the amount of memory you have.
 >You can download it from:
 >http://students.cs.byu.edu/~nuffer/bigint.h
 >http://students.cs.byu.edu/~nuffer/bigint.cpp
 >
 >I placed it into the public domain, and anyone is free to use it.  If
 >there is interest, it could be cleaned up and submitted to boost.  It
 >also needs some performance work, as I took the straightforward, easy to
 >code approach and didn't do any fancy algorithms.

Dan,

Did you look at Daryle Walker's 
http://www.egroups.com/files/boost/bitint.zip posting?

Did your classes have any advantages over Daryle's?

--Beman