Re: [Boost-users] BigInteger equivalent

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-25 23:29:46

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:25:57 -0700, Jeff Garland wrote

replies to self....

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:26:16 -0700 (PDT), Cromwell Enage wrote
> > --- Noel Yap wrote:
> > > Is there anything in boost (or elsewhere) similar to
> > > Java's BigInteger?
> > 
> > None yet in the main distribution.  However, there
> > were two candidates submitted a while back.  One is in
> > the Sandbox CVS
> > <http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost-sandbox/boost-sandbox/>,
> > the library is called "bigint".
> 
> The description / docs look for bigint look like a nice piece of 
> work to me. Too bad it looks like the implementation is missing :-(
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Oops, it's there.  I got confused by the fact that bigint.hpp just under boost
and not under boost/bigint as it should be ;-)

Jeff