Re: Integer division

[Andres Perera <andres.p@...>]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have an idea.
>>> Strings can be treated as integer numbers of arbitrary length.
>>> So, a string of length 8 can be used instead of 64-bit integer.
>>> Let all integer and bitwise operations be implemented on strings.
>>> Strings will never overflow because of auto growing up.
>>> It will be cool to have very-long-integer arithmetic in Lua
>>> without external libraries.
>>>
>
>> implementing a BCD-like solution without optimizing per
>> arch is pretty much useless in the face of competition (gmp,
>> openssl bn, cobol itself). serious projects would end up
>> using external libraries anyway
>
> I haven't checked Python's source code but I would be very sup

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