On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Mark Wieder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/10/2015 04:51 AM, Randy Hengst wrote: > > Based on what I’ve seen in this discussion and info from reading the list >> for several years, LiveCode has difficulty with very large numbers. >> > > True. But to be fair, this is not a problem specific to LiveCode. It's a > generic problem in any programming language - eventually you will run into > the limits of the math library and the limits of the processor. The limits > aren't always immediately obvious, and some "trickery" is then necessary to > redefine the problem space. I can't let something like this go by without mentioning that my second-favorite language J gives arbitrary-precision integer math just by appending x to the inputs, e.g. 2x^200 1606938044258990275541962092341162602522202993782792835301376 J is neat. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
