Re: standard representations

[Dan Sugalski]

At 08:05 PM 12/30/00 -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>
> > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > >Anyone know of a good bigint/bigfloat library whose terms are such 
> that we
> > >can just snag the source and use it in perl?
> >
> > There was some traffic on gcc list recently about a GNU one (presumably GPL
> > only).
>
>There's a clone of the GPL one that was written specifically to avoid GPL
>issues.  I'll try to dig up more references when I'm in next week.

Cool, thanks. If the licensing issues are good, I'll take a shot at redoing 
BigInt and BigFloat for perl 5 as a trial run.

                                        Dan

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