Re[2]: Really big numbers

[Anton Gombkötö <gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>David Morris: > 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.

> >>2,147,483,647 digits
>Dan Bale: > Um, is this a typo?

It's a misunderstanding. Convert it to hex, and you'll receive 7FFFFFFF. 
That can't be a coincidence; so i think there was a mix-up with the biggest 
possible contents of signed numeric variable occupying 4 bytes and the 
number of digits.

And 170 digits is definitely way too much for every purpose i can imagine. 
I think i once read about the number of atoms in the universe and i think 
that number was smaller....

I really want to know what you want to do, David....



Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Anton Gombkötö

Avenum Technologie GmbH
Wien - Mattsee - Stuttgart
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Lest das Redbook / read the redbook "Who knew you could do that with RPG?":
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245402.html

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