On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Dimitrios Vyzovitis wrote:

> Hi,
> Has anyone implemented any arbitrary precision arithmetic routines in
> java?

Do you mean someting different from BigDecimal (which is included)?

BigDecimal allows numbers of any size with any number of decimal places.
It's a rotten way to do decimal arithmetic (overheads MUST be horrendous)
but nice when you really want those big numbers.

Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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