RE: Really big numbers

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Morris wrote:

>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!.

I had to use Knuth and roll my own back in S/3 days.

If you use Java, you can't pass it back as a parameter because RPG can't
handle a number of that size natively.  I assume you will toString() it, but
then what can you do with a string of 230-odd digits in RPG besides print it
out?  Will you write a Java "service program" to do all the work for you and
pass strings back and forth?

I love the stuff you work on!  :-)

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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