RE: Really big numbers

["David Morris" <dmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

B,

Thanks for the suggestion.  Until I read the Class documentation I did 
not realize that BigDecimal can go up to 2,147,483,647 digits.  That probably 
fits the problem better than another suggestion to use REX, which works 
fine, but Java is a much more acceptable solution.  I was amazed at how 
fast REX is so I won't rule it out.  

David Morris

>>> bbrosch@stecnet.com 01/04/01 01:55PM >>>
BigDeimal in Java.   :)

-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris [mailto:dmorris@plumcreek.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:23 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com 
Subject: Really big numbers


Math enabled RPGIV'ers,

What are some of the options for storing and manipulating 
very large numbers where long float is just not large enough?  
In this case to use a number greater than 170!.

Thanks,

David Morris


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