"D'Arcy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [crypto] is what [BigInteger] is was written for in the first place > apparently... I had the (unsubstantiated) impression was that it was written for JDBC (i.e. a needed SQL data type). Certainly, I can't imagine BigDecimal being useful for crypto, but big decimal integers (at least 18 digits) are needed for database applications. --Per Bothner Cygnus Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner
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