Re: private/public key support ?

[Valerio Schiavoni <valerio.schiavoni@...>]

I agree that bc.number does that for decimals.

But, my hex values can't probably fit 32 bits.

Those hex values represent urls as returned by :

function url2hex(url) 

h,s =  string.gsub(url, "(.)", function(c) return string.format("%02x", string.byte(c)) end) 

return h

end 

I can't find any other workaround than looking into Luiz's bc library sources to see how it works and if it's easy to extend it.

Or how to transate a BigInt value into a bc's compatible big integer. Suggestions ? 

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

 > bigint_hextonum, but what
> I probably need is a way to translate a string  to a bc's big-integer.

bc.number does that for decimal numbers:
x=bc.number"31415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445"