ditto my argument. if you have such a great "need" for BIG NUMBERS, and you don't like approximating or just plain GUESSWORK (which is what all those zeroes mean..) GMP or PARI ought to be the way to go..
On 12/23/05, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AFAIK, on an x86 machine, a long double would be the ten-byte, 80-bit
representation of floating point numbers that every x86 FPU since the
8087 has been using internally. It would have a 15-bit exponent a 64
bit mantissa, allowing one to represent numbers up to 10^4932 with up to
19 significant decimal digits.
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