At 01:10 PM 7/18/99 -0400, Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy wrote:
>I was reading Fermat's Enigma today and something occurred to me...would it
>be possible to work with a number quicker if we used a higher base?  I.E.
>Use base 32 instead of base 10?  

Multiple precision arithmetic operations do that.

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