Found 2 hits - Term: bignum, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
bignum /big'nuhm/ n. common; orig. from mit maclisp 1. techspeak a
multiple-precision computer representation for very large integers. 2.
more generally, any very large number. "have you ever looked at the
united states budget? there's bignums for you" 3. stanford in
backgammon, large numbers on the dice especially a roll of double fives
or double sixes compare moby, sense 4. see also el camino bignum.
sense 1 may require some explanation. most computer languages provide
a kind of data called `integer', but such computer integers are usually
very limited in size; usually they must be smaller than 2^31
2,147,483,648 or on a bitty box 2^15 32,768. if you want to
work with numbers larger than that, you have to use floating-point
numbers, which are usually accurate to only six or seven decimal places.
computer languages that provide bignums can perform exact calculations
on very large numbers, such as 1000 the factorial of 1000, which is
1000 times 999 times 998 times ... times 2 times 1. for example, this
value for 1000 was computed by the maclisp system using bignums:
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000000000000000000.
see also:
moby el camino bignum bitty box
- [2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
bignum
/big'nuhm/ originally from mit maclisp a
multiple-precision computer representation for very large
integers.
most computer languages provide a type of data called
"integer", but such computer integers are usually limited in
size; usually they must be smaller than 2^31 2,147,483,648
or on a bitty box 2^15 32,768. if you want to work with
numbers larger than that, you have to use floating-point
numbers, which are usually accurate to only six or seven
decimal places. computer languages that provide bignums can
perform exact calculations on very large numbers, such as
1000 the factorial of 1000, which is 1000 times 999 times
998 times ... times 2 times 1. for example, this value for
1000 was computed by the maclisp system using bignums:
40238726007709377354370243392300398571937486421071
46325437999104299385123986290205920442084869694048
00479988610197196058631666872994808558901323829669
94459099742450408707375991882362772718873251977950
59509952761208749754624970436014182780946464962910
56393887437886487337119181045825783647849977012476
63288983595573543251318532395846307555740911426241
74743493475534286465766116677973966688202912073791
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86110369768013573042161687476096758713483120254785
89320767169132448426236131412508780208000261683151
02734182797770478463586817016436502415369139828126
48102130927612448963599287051149649754199093422215
66832572080821333186116811553615836546984046708975
60290095053761647584772842188967964624494516076535
34081989013854424879849599533191017233555566021394
50399736280750137837615307127761926849034352625200
01588853514733161170210396817592151090778801939317
81141945452572238655414610628921879602238389714760
88506276862967146674697562911234082439208160153780
88989396451826324367161676217916890977991190375403
12746222899880051954444142820121873617459926429565
81746628302955570299024324153181617210465832036786
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000000000000000000.
jargon file
1996-06-27
see also:
mit maclisp multiple-precision bitty box floating-point jargon file
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bignum_pag1.html
nntp.perl.org - perl.perl6.internals.bignum (12)
...... perl6-internals-bignum[at]perl.org Subject: Re: BIGNUM memory and ... handline which will be for perl6. T> A bignum interface for perl6 ... ..
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals.bignum/12, score=100, date indexed=January 12, 2006, 10:42 am PHPNukeFiles
...... BIGNUM *a); char *BN_bn2dec(const BIGNUM *a); int BN_hex2bn(BIGNUM **a ... int BN_bn2bin(const BIGNUM *a, unsigned char *to); BIGNUM *BN_bin2bn( ... ..
http://www.phpnukefiles.com/modules.php?name=man&command=BN_bn2dec+%5BBN_print_fp%5D, score=94, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 11:12 pm PHPNukeFiles
...... BIGNUM *a); char *BN_bn2dec(const BIGNUM *a); int BN_hex2bn(BIGNUM **a ... int BN_bn2bin(const BIGNUM *a, unsigned char *to); BIGNUM *BN_bin2bn( ... ..
http://www.phpnukefiles.com/modules.php?name=man&command=BN_bn2dec+++++++++++, score=94, date indexed=January 23, 2006, 8:13 am OpenBSD Ports - p5-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum
...... p5-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum p5-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum. Short description: ... Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum is an XS perl module designed to provide basic ... ..
http://ports.puffy.nu/?pid=2530, score=84, date indexed=November 26, 2005, 7:01 pm El Camino Bignum
... ..
http://www.linuxguruz.org/foldoc/foldoc.php?El+Camino+Bignum, score=78, date indexed=December 16, 2005, 10:45 pm PHPNukeFiles
...... BIGNUM *BN_new(void); void BN_init(BIGNUM *); void BN_clear(BIGNUM *a ... BIGNUM *a); DESCRIPTION BN_new() allocated and initializes a BIGNUM ... ..
http://www.phpnukefiles.com/modules.php?name=man&command=BN_clear_free+%5BBN_new%5D, score=68, date indexed=January 22, 2006, 10:56 am PuTTY semi-bug optimise-bignum
...This makes a noticeable difference to bignum operations such as at SSH ... summary: Bignum optimisation for more x86 compilers / more processors ... ..
http://putty.cofman.dk/wishlist/optimise-bignum.html, score=68, date indexed=November 6, 2005, 5:21 am The SNIPPETS DOS collection - file: BIGNUM.H
...BIGNUM.H. Warning: filemtime(): Stat failed for code/BIGNUM.H (errno=2 ... Warning: fopen(code/BIGNUM.H): failed to open stream: No such file or ... ..
http://dos.snippets.org/snip_lister.php?fname=BIGNUM.H, score=63, date indexed=December 3, 2005, 6:28 am PuTTY semi-bug optimise-bignum
...This makes a noticeable difference to bignum operations such as at SSH ... summary: Bignum optimisation for more x86 compilers / more processors ... ..
http://putty.nobandwidth.net/wishlist/optimise-bignum.html, score=57, date indexed=November 6, 2005, 10:25 pm
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