Re: How to handle long long number?

["jason zhang" <jzhang@...>]

oh, it seems that the library only provide a large-number support a Lua script.
The internal datatype of Lua is still 'double'. Is there any method to make Lua use
larger number in the interpreter? 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jason zhang" <jzhang@sunrisetelecom.com.cn>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: How to handle long long number?


> Thank you so much. I downloaded the "lbc" library. It's really important to keep 
> all the data precise in my application, thank you both again!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Diego Nehab" <diego@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:52 AM
> Subject: Re: How to handle long long number?
> 
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> Does anyone else have additional information on this?
>> 
>> If he really needs it, he can use one of the big number
>> libraries for Lua. There seem to be a couple around. 
>> There is one at http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/.
>> There might be others.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Diego.
>>